Nigella Lawson Defends the Honor of Home Cooking

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This episode features an in-depth conversation with one of the food world’s most beloved and compelling personalities, Nigella Lawson. Nigella has hosted cooking shows and written 11 books including her breakout best-seller How to Eat. While our host Francis Lam has been reading her work for his entire career, he just recently had the chance to talk with her in-person when she came to the U.S. to tour for her new book, At My Table. During their conversation, Lawson explained why she has to defend the honor of home cooking, how snobbery ruins everything, and why her cookbooks feel like conversations.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

May 18, 2018 (originally aired)
May 10, 2019 (rebroadcast)
November 29, 2019 (rebroadcast)

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0:45.3	I'm Francis Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show for curious cooks and eaters. Today, we're spending the hour with Nigella Lawson.
1:19.8	She's really one of the true international food world superstars.
1:24.2	She's written 11 cookbooks, hosted TV shows for two decades, and is terrible
1:29.7	with a knife. She is British and aristocratic, but relatable. And she's dined all over the
1:35.2	world, but sometimes stays in hotels with kitchenettes just so she can roast a chicken. And while
1:39.8	I've read her and read about her for my whole career, I finally got a chance to meet her when she came to the U.S. to tour for her new book,
1:49.0	At My Table, a celebration of home cooking.
1:57.0	So we met in the studio and got right into it, about why she has to defend the honor of home cooking,
2:03.7	why snobbery ruins everything,
2:05.8	and why her cookbooks feel like conversations.
2:11.1	Nigella, thank you so much for coming today.
2:13.8	Thank you for inviting me. It's lovely to be here.
2:16.3	It is a true honor to have you with us.
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