Nigella Lawson in general

I love Nigella Lawson. I saw her on tv before I bought any of her books, like many people I'm sure. As a curvy 50s housewife style lady myself I was immediatly drawn to her. She has a great tv personality - she looks fantastic and really flirts with the camera. I know a lot of people think she's over the top but I don't mind, tv cooking needs a bit of that! So then I got her book 'Nigella Express' for my birthday. It's a fantastic book. Everything I have made from it has turned out perfect and tastes delicious. The book has a great mixture of sweet and savory and I always use it over any other book if I have people coming around. You can't beat her ...  Read the complete review

Who would ever have thought it? Me, the culinary queen of toast and take-aways, actually having a cookbook on my birthday list last year? Now what a shocker that was, and not just for the recipients of said list. See, I was hooked after seeing the Nigella Bites series on TV, she was sooo glamorous, so competent, and the food looked so good. And as a result, I now have each of her three cookbooks, and I actually use them, rather than just drooling over the pictures (although I do that as well). The first one I got was Nigella Bites, the book of the TV series, but in the interests of completeness and as an overview, I’m going to deal with them chronologically. ...  Read the complete review

I have just purchased How To Eat for my wife for Xmas. I think that I might be doing more of the cooking now we have this book! At first glance I thought it was gonna be another one of those patronising books in the genre of Delia Smith! "How To Eat" I mean come on.... BUT Nigella has blended simplicity with her wealth of knowledge in such a way that you are inspired without the "God I couldn't possibly do that!" aspect. One of the other positive features of this book is the lack of pictures/photos of the food. This to some people maybe a turn off but for me it sets a statement.... Here's a recipe follow ...  Read the complete review