Nigella Lawson on Journalism, Restaurant Criticism, and Food Photos

Eater's Digest

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News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Nigella Lawson dropped by the studio to talk about her new book At My Table, how she got into restaurant criticism, and why if she wasn't working hard she'd just lie down. Hosted by: Amanda Kludt and Daniel Geneen. Sign up for Amanda Kludt’s newsletter here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the eater upsell part of the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:05.1	This is Amanda Clute, the editor-in-chief of Eater.
0:07.3	I'm joined, of course, by Daniel Janine.
0:09.4	Hi Dan.
0:10.4	Hey Amanda Clute, we have Nigel Lawson today. Yes, we do. We have Nijela Lawson today.
0:13.0	Let's see how quickly we can get to this interview.
0:15.0	Quick, who is Nijela?
0:17.0	Nijela was one of the first big food TV stars.
0:20.0	She started in England, but she was quickly picked up in the US and kind of exploded early 2000s and is still
0:27.0	going strong.
0:28.0	Yeah, huge celebrity in the UK.
0:30.0	A bunch of books.
0:31.0	Really fun, really intelligent, intellectual, kind of dark. Yeah, she's
0:37.0	dark. I think like what is different, you know, what do I really love about her is that she you know she has a food show a lot of people
0:44.4	had a food show have a food show but when you listen to her in interviews she's like
0:49.1	crazy articulate and yeah considers food in a way that is not maybe you wouldn't expect from someone who has
0:58.1	been in so many TV shows.
1:00.1	Great so let's get right into it but before do, we wanted to give a little shout out
1:04.0	to our friend Bill Addison.
1:05.8	He is our roving restaurant critic.
1:08.6	You may remember him from our episode,
1:10.3	the best fed man in the world.
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