“Writing about food when you’re married to someone who can’t eat – that was odd. Set the oven at 200C/gas mark 6. But all that cookery-porn nonsense was always just for the TV shows; feeding actual people is a different matter. And what are you going to eat for lunch? It’s not a choice, it’s the person I am.’, igella Lawson – Britain’s only true “surname unnecessary” global celebrity since Princess Diana – is feeding everyone. So much of her personal life has been played out in public, from her parents ensuring everyone would know who her famous father is whenever she introduced herself; to her first husband, John Diamond, charting the last years of his life with her and their two small children, Cosima and Bruno, before he died of throat cancer at the age of 47; to her second marriage to Charles Saatchi, which ended in a brutally public manner in 2013, when Saatchi was photographed grabbing her by the throat and holding her nose outside the London restaurant Scott’s. But all that cookery-porn nonsense was always just for the TV shows; feeding actual people is a different matter. Made with fresh cherries, its easy to make, and is incredible with a big scoop of ice cream! Nigella Lawson’s new book, Cook, Eat, Repeat, grabbing her by the throat and holding her nose. Food Styling: Andie Redman. She can hide behind that whole public persona,” says her friend, the actor Maria McErlane. The couple had a fraught relationship. But she is also very aware of the risks of teetering into self-parody, a line she has arguably crossed in the past on TV (see previously mentioned spoon-licking, and the many, many “Nigella does sexy cooking” mashups on YouTube). Saved by Erin {Delightful E Made} 1.3k. There have been cherry compotes, the stoned fruits stewed with (very little) sugar and water, or perhaps a dash of elderflower cordial to add depth and effervescence. Nigella Lawson: ‘I didn't think I’d be a mended person, but I am’, Nigella Lawson: ‘You plough on. I ask her why, back in 2014, she wanted to meet me. Where Slater connects food with the shifts of life – the seasons and one’s own maturation – Lawson roots it in pleasure: the pleasures of cooking, feeding, eating. • Nigella Lawson’s book Cook, Eat, Repeat is published by Chatto & Windus on 29 October, at £26. Trickle the icing over the tarts and leave to lightly set. An established journalist before becoming a celebrity cook, she prefers to write her own articles; after all, when you write your own copy you are in control. When she talks about the importance of hearth and home, it isn’t because her domestic situation is naturally blissful; it’s because she’s had to fight against circumstances and her own tendencies to make it so. Even in a black jumpsuit (“I’m the sucker who buys things from Instagram ads”) and Birkenstocks (“the only shoes I’ve worn for months”) she has a slightly regal air that brings to mind a queen distributing food to the masses. It’s not a choice, it’s the person I am. She’s embraced a solo lockdown, and is back with a new book (and TV show) of signature comfort food. The tarts are best eaten just warm or certainly the same day, but will keep for a day or two in a biscuit tin. I’d gone to meet her that night expecting to glean some fabulous life lessons; I came away worried about her, and we stayed in occasional email contact. Email Nigel at nigel.slater@observer.co.uk or follow him on Twitter @NigelSlater. So, instead, we talk about the aftermath of the divorce and court case, and she says she is much happier now than the night we met. (Instead she credits her complexion to “no sun and eating lots of fats”.) Nigella's plum crumble adds crunchy amaretti to the topping which makes it almondy and a little bit Italian. It’s more fun, she adds, to be “trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake… winning adoring glances and endless approbation”. “I think it became a pattern. Obviously any sort of fruit can be used here. Tiny tarts travel better and are easy to tuck in between our sandwiches and scarlet-wrapped Tunnock’s wafers. She has also kept much of the same team on her books throughout her career; she likes, she says, to have “a work family”. And the cakes that result make no apologies for the omission – they stand proudly in their own right and have more than earned their places in my cooking repertoire, as they should in yours. It was at this point, when Diamond could no longer swallow food, that Lawson wrote, at her husband’s suggestion, How To Eat. Years later, no matter how bad things got in adulthood, she knew they would improve, because “nothing could be as bad as childhood”. Hairy Biker tip: You can add 50g of oats to the crumble mixture for a bit of extra chewiness. Featured in NIGELLA EXPRESS. By all accounts, they made an endearing couple: he the naughty East End Jewish boy, she the quiet society beauty. But she laughs when I ask if she was raised to be ambitious or self-confident: “Is anyone?” She still looks like a Botticelli come to life, with the skin of a 25-year-old. “Various things that I can’t… I don’t think any of us [siblings] would regard it as a childhood we would want to return to.” In a 2012 interview, she said her mother would shout at the children, “I’m going to hit you until you cry.” “She just didn’t like me,” Lawson told Simon Schama, “maybe because I came after Dominic the princeling and I was my father’s girl, she was jealous, I don’t know.”. But I suppose it was about clutching on to life, really,” she says. No one should feel guilty about what they eat, or the pleasure they get from eating; the only thing to feel guilty about (and even then I don’t recommend it) is the failure to … Cherry and almond crumble ‘Best made not with fresh cherries, but frozen.’ Photograph: ©Jonathan Lovekin 2020 ... • Nigella Lawson’s e-book Cook, Eat, Repeat is revealed by Chatto & Windus on 29 October, RRP £26. Apple crumble is really easy to do but it needs to be served hot, and if possible, straight after being cooked in the oven. ... Ruby-red plum and amaretti crumble. Cover with cling film and store in fridge until needed. I first met Lawson in 2014, a few months after the end of the case, and about a year after I’d written about the photos taken in front of Scott’s. Cherry Almond Tart A Bakewell style cherry and almond tart Nectarines, Puff Pastry, Cream Cheese Quickly made tarts of nectarines, almonds and cream chee ... A new crumble cake with fresh (or frozen) gooseberries. Alongside a sneak peak at the book’s cover, Nigella explained what this book is all about, and even teased some recipes that can be found in Cook, Eat, Repeat. The greengrocer insisted I taste them all. Lower the heat, let the cherries simmer for about 10 minutes, until they are soft and the juice is a deep burgundy colour and almost jam like. For the topping: Heaping 2/3 cup all-purpose flour 4 teaspoons vanilla extract. Hair and makeup: Tricia Woolston. After losing her mother at 25, Lawson’s sister Thomasina, to whom she was especially close, died at the age of 31 from breast cancer, when Lawson was nine months pregnant with her first child. Preheat oven to 375ºF. I like mine hot and syrupy under a soft pastry crust, or ice-cold, so their skins tighten and their juice spurts down your shirt like blood from a deep cut. The couple met on the Sunday Times, where she was the deputy literary editor and he was a writer, and fell deeply in love. 1/4 cup caster sugar. Sieve the icing sugar into a small bowl and stir in the elderflower cordial. Instead, Lawson – like Nigel Slater, who gained prominence in the mid-90s – offers beautiful writing that makes you want to read her books as much as cook from them. “Sometimes I think food preoccupies me too much,” she tells me, sitting on a sofa. He even resembled her father, which, surely, even if only on a subliminal level, compounded the sense of being taken care of. It’s tiresome, and it’s tiresome now, but what can you do?” Why did her parents give all their daughters girlified boys’ names? Both the show and the book feel brilliantly, though accidentally, well-timed; what else are we all going to do this winter but stay home and read, cook and watch TV? Crumble is really all about the topping and instead of using butter and flour, we used ground almonds, oats and a little bit of coconut oil. Fold in the cherries and then the milk and spoon the thick mixture into a lined and buttered loaf tin (23 x 13 x 7cm / 9 x 5 x 3 inches) and bake for ¾-1 hour, or until a cake-tester comes out clean. “I’m very happy at last.”. ... Autorentext. But what was so bad about hers? Almond Crumble-Topped Mince Pies Recipe Book: Mary Berry Cooks Up A Feast Review: 5 stars for this one! Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. To order a copy for £22.62, visit the Guardian Bookshop. September 2020. Dice the butter, put it into the bowl of a food mixer and add the caster sugar. She has been around for so long, letting us into her own kitchen (in the first TV series) and then simulacrums thereon afterwards, her face perfectly lit by the glow of her giant refrigerator, or the fairy lights decked around her elegant garden. “I don’t know if it was the calm of lockdown, or getting older, but I’ve stopped looking back on the past an awful lot. Gooseberry Trifle Another gooseberry trifle, this … Oat crumble. She adds: “Everybody likes to think cooks are nurturing, but maybe we’re just controlling – controlling what people eat.”. And then she raises her throaty voice a little, which she does when she’s playing to the gallery: “Also, I’m just really greedy.”, Lawson knows how people see her: Lady Bountiful, a sensualist celebrator of appetite. “I hated childhood, the lack of autonomy, and the only thing you have control over [at that age] is whether you eat or not. Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat will be on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer in November. But the truth is, Delia Smith already had that covered. “My attitude towards food is such a repudiation of her, a triumph over her, thinking, ‘I’m not going to play that game. “It’s not an image, it’s an armour. Cherry Almond Crumble Tart. “I don’t know, my mother died at 48,” she replies briskly. Tasty cherry muffins that are super easy to make too. Taking pleasure in food is not just about cooking – it’s about thinking, ‘I’ve got myself something delicious’.”. A cherry at room temperature doesn’t do it for me. Lightly whip the egg whites with a balloon whisk. Use ripe red plums for a beautiful ruby colour. But then she married Saatchi and she disappeared behind the fortress, the way the super-rich do,” says a former Times colleague. But sometimes people don’t cope on the outside, either. Lawson was entirely on her own – her children are now in their 20s – and says she found the enforced pause “wonderful, which I know sounds awful. After four years of nursing her husband, who could blame her for falling into the arms of a wealthy man who promised, her friends say, that he’d look after everything? Bake the tarts for 25 minutes, the tray sitting on the heated baking sheet to ensure the bases cook crisply. We have eaten cherries all summer long. Whatever fruit you use, though, the great thing about the topping is that it bakes to a lovely short, crumbly crispness, which, combined with the toasted “Nigella has a very maternal spirit, but she’s both mother and child: you want to take care of her,” says the journalist Fiona Golfar, her best friend of 40 years. When he lost his voice, Lawson had to be his translator to the world. “I know, and I used to feel, what a luxury, to not cope on the outside. The cherries have been extraordinary this year. I didn’t have an eating disorder, but I really hated family mealtimes. I like mine hot and syrupy under a soft pastry crust, or ice-cold, so their skins tighten and their juice spurts down your shirt like blood from a deep cut. I made the full recipe. A cherry at room temperature doesn’t do it for me. I very much like having no public life.” One of her greatest pleasures during the long stretch of solitude was to stop writing at the end of the afternoon and relax on her sofa with a Campari and soda, and “that fantastically retro thing of putting crisps in a bowl. It will also include essays from Nigella. This delicious tart is filled with the flavors of summer! But that’s not how she sees herself. Lawson wasn’t on trial, although it was easy to forget that, as both the Grillo sisters and Saatchi gave lurid testimonies about her on the stand. The usual explanation for Lawson’s enormous success in the late 1990s is that she reassured an anxious public that cooking at home needn’t be like cooking in a restaurant. From Nigella Christmas (Chatto & Windus, £20). With a few little swaps you can save yourself some calories for the ice cream or custard. Lawson is on the case like the fifth emergency service. Once I have had my fill I will take a tray of them into the kitchen for a pie, crumble or jam. Put the hulled strawberries into your pie dish, I use a round ovenproof pie dish approx. To order a copy for £22.62, visit the Guardian Bookshop . But I suppose that survival thing kicked in, and it felt important to think about food because it became clear [during lockdown] that it gave structure, sustenance and pleasure,” she says. They certainly didn't disappoint. Fruit crumble, like this apple cherry crumble is total comfort food, but that doesn't mean it has to be full of calories and fat. “He had this sense of ease in himself, and that made the air around him comfortable,” Lawson says. And that’s how I feel about everything: you plough on. 1/4 cup almond meal/flour. To order a copy for £17, go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. “That’s the point of life, isn’t it? You know when you really want a mince pie? For the compote:cherries 200gcaster sugar 4 tbspwhite vermouth 4 tbspTo serve:flaked almonds a large handfulgoat’s curd 250glemon zest 1 tspcrispbread or flatbread. Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas 6; Tip the frozen berries into a saucepan with half the sugar and place on a medium heat. Grate the lemon zest into the goat’s curd. “I’m not going to answer that!” Most pleasing to her, she’s stopped being “a ruminator”. The crumble can be assembled one day ahead. Jumbleberry Crumble by Nigella. Get full Cranberry-Orange and Almond Pudding (Nigella Lawson) Recipe ingredients, how-to directions, calories and nutrition review. Lawson recently recorded the audiobook for How To Eat, to mark its 20th anniversary, returning to many little references to her home life with Diamond, and found it “incredibly exhausting, all the quick denial and blocking of emotions. Well yesterday was it for me. Also, I think, despite the shyness and public masks, Lawson wanted at least someone who had written about her ordeal to understand who she really is. Browse The Guardian Bookshop for a big selection of Non-fiction reviews books and the latest book reviews from The Guardian Buy Cook, Eat, Repeat 9781784743666 by Nigella Lawson for only £2 JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. But now I think, maybe it’s fortunate to be the way I am.” she says. These had been on my mind since I picked up this book on Tuesday in Costco. But it must have been odd to be writing recipes in April when people were queueing to get into supermarkets, I say. Format: hardback. Add the sugar and ground almonds. Top: Carla Zampatti. I never thought I had that freedom. And then there was Diamond. Great scoop: cherries, toasted almonds, goat’s curf. Within these chapters are recipes for all tastes, from Beef Cheeks with Port and Chestnuts to Cherry and Almond Crumble. Mix in the egg yolks then fold in the flour and baking powder, thoroughly but gently, adding as much water as it takes to form a soft but rollable dough. 1 pound strawberries, hulled. There are actually 2 recipes for apple crumble so I kind of mixed both recipes. “I do find a lot of the stuff that is considered normal takes a lot of emotional effort for me,” she says. To order a replica for £22.62, go to the Guardian Bookshop. Would she have believed back then that she’d be happy in six years’ time? It is a delight to read, the kind of book you want to hunker down in bed with on a wintry afternoon. I have a Vegemite sandwich if you want it,” she asks, returning to Mark. Two years later, Lawson married Saatchi. And after 60 years of being a ruminator, it’s an amazing thing. Whiz the flour and butter in a food processor until the mixture resembles fine fresh breadcrumbs. Also, she is funny, an underrated quality in cookbooks. Cherry Crumble made with Fresh Cherries, Oats and Almonds…!! Gluten-Free. For the pastry:butter 100gcaster sugar 100gegg yolks 2plain flour 250gbaking powder 1 tspwater 2 tbspFor the filling:ground almonds 200gicing sugar 200gplain flour 2 heaped tbspcherries 300gegg whites 3For the icing:icing sugar 70gelderflower cordial 2 tbsp, You will also need a tray of patty tins each 7cm in diameter. Phone orders min. To this day, she often imagines she’s telling Thomasina her recipes when she’s writing her books. It’s so great! I ordered so many they sent a box!” she tells her publicist, Mark. Scatter the almonds in a single layer in a shallow pan and toast over a moderate heat until golden. Crunchy on the Top n Juicy on the Inside… A Delicious Fruit Dessert…! Alternatively, cream the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon. Place scoops of goat’s curd on each of 4 plates with some of the toasted almonds, the compote and, if you wish, a little crispbread or flatbread. They’re not coping on the inside and they’re coping on the outside’.”. Nigella's crumble - frozen topping equals crunch. I love it with berries or apricots in summer, in spring it’s good with rhubarb, and in autumn I use half blackberries and half apples. Is it genetic? Did she think about stopping? Those with a sweet tooth will delight in Chocolate, Tahini and Banana Pudding; Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake; Basque Burnt Cheesecake; and Cherry and Almond Crumble. Asked to give evidence, Lawson admitted that she had used drugs in order to make “an intolerable situation bearable”, describing her former husband of almost a decade as “a brilliant but brutal man” who had subjected her to “intimate terrorism”. She has been talking about her love of that, and her abject terror that someone in her vicinity might be slightly peckish, for three decades now, ever since the publication of her first cookbook, 1998’s. As well as the book, she has a new TV series, filmed with largely the same crew she has worked with since the early 2000s. “Well, who knows whether someone needs to carry on working financially?” she says with a pointed laugh. Nigella Lawson's a woman who looks like she knows how to appreciate a good crumble … Bake as directed in the recipe, but allowing an extra 5–10 minutes’ cooking time. I was warned before this interview by Lawson’s team not to ask about Saatchi. There were three varieties this week: fat, glossy gobstoppers from the US, a box of small, sharper fruits from Turkey and a tray of dark-fleshed beauties from Britain. he cherries have been extraordinary this year. This week my plan had been to make a cherry Bakewell, a wide, round tart with a layer of jam and another of thin, golden icing, but instead I made small ones we could tuck into our lunchboxes for a train journey to Scotland. This must-bake muffin recipe has hints of sweet cinnamon, flaked almonds and deep cherries. Using a flat beater, cream the two together until they are light and fluffy – the colour of vanilla ice cream. So when she emailed, suggesting a drink, I piled on the makeup, expecting a fearsome glamazon. Nigella Lawson with her father, Nigel, mother, Vanessa, and sister, Thomasina, in 1965. 'Food, for me, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it, reflect deeply on it, learn from it; it provides comfort, inspiration, meaning and beauty, as well as sustenance and structure. Remove the stems from the cherries, halve the fruits and remove the stones. When we think of Lawson, we think of her hosting those lovely dinner parties on her show, surrounded by people and noise. I f I could ban any phrase, it would be that overused, viscerally irritating, and far-from-innocent term, the Guilty Pleasure. Since you never know when you might be in urgent need of a crumble, I make up enough topping for at least 4 of these and let it sit safely in the freezer until required. Place them in the fridge. The TV programme Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat will air in November on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. But there is a gently melancholic air, with references to the kitchen as a safe space in turbulent times, and solitary suppers. They countered that Lawson had allowed them to spend the money in return for staying shtum about what they claimed was her abuse of cocaine and prescription drugs. When people say, ‘How is so-and-so coping?’ I always think, ‘How do you feel they’re coping? '*OVER 150 DELICIOUS NEW RECIPES*NEW TV SERIES, COOK, EAT, REPEAT, NOW ON BBC TWOCook, Eat, Repeat is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food, all written in Nigella's engaging and insightful prose. Another friend of Lawson’s, who stayed close throughout her marriage to Saatchi, concurs: “Let’s just say there weren’t cosy dinners in the kitchen any more.” Saatchi is a gazillionaire, and yet, throughout their marriage, Lawson continued to work. “I just think matzos is a really good vehicle for other things, like butter with Maldon salt, or Roquefort,” she says. “With John, you used to see her at dinner parties and things. Few know better than her the importance of controlling your environment when you can’t control anything else. Sprinkle the topping over the apples and bake the crumble in the preheated oven for about 30 minutes or until the top is golden brown and the apples are cooked. “It was hard. By and large, my way of tackling gluten-free baking is simply to exclude flour altogether. Nigella will hopefully have a TV series alongside the book publication. It hasn’t, she says, always been that way. I often think about a line in How To Cook, about saving ham bones to flavour future soups: “It may make your freezer look like Dennis Nilsen’s, but that’s a small price to pay.” In her new book, Cook, Eat, Repeat, Lawson’s first in three years, she says that she so often puts reminders into her phone about chicken that whenever she writes “‘Ta’ the phone autocompletes it as ‘Take chicken out of fridge’, no matter if what I actually intended was ‘Tax return’”. I tossed the early Italian fruits into roast chicken salads or perched them on sheets of crisp puff pastry and ricotta. Lawson turned 60 this year and that, combined with lockdown has brought some changes. Cherry and almond crumble ... To order a copy for £22.62, visit the Guardian Bookshop. May I suggest a jug of cream here? Her father was a journalist then, and her mother, Vanessa Salmon, an heiress. I’m not going to be that thin,’” Lawson says. OVER 150 DELICIOUS NEW RECIPES, AS FEATURED IN GUARDIAN WEEKEND MAGAZINE NEW TV SERIES, COOK, EAT, REPEAT , COMES TO BBC TWO THIS AUTUMN Cook, Eat, Repeat is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food, all written in Nigella's engaging and insightful prose. Print me. Roll the pastry out to the thickness of a 10p piece then use a biscuit cutter to make discs of pastry, pressing each into the patty tins as you go. Hot and syrupy in a tart, cool and fragrant in a compote, this sweet seasonal fruit is hard to beat, Last modified on Tue 9 Jul 2019 09.28 BST. Cherry, Oat and Almond Crumble A comforting recipe for Cherry, Oat and Almond Crumble made with delicious, wholesome ingredients that have been carefully chosen to improve quality of sleep. They should be a soft froth rather than have the capability of standing in stiff peaks. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Serve with cream or custard. Sprinkle it … But I’m very happy not having to fill up my life going to things. “I’ve brought the Guinness crisps that you like. Put the flour in a bowl with the baking powder and salt. Halve and stone the cherries, then stir them into the dry ingredients. Peach Crumble is a community recipe submitted by juicyorange and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe. “When I was really young, I hated being saddled with such a distinctive name. Remove the pan from the heat and leave to cool. There have been bag after bag of them in the fridge since the first Turkish fruits arrived at my greengrocer’s in May. Very quick and easy to make. She looks a little nonplussed by my joyless take. This is at least partly because Lawson wrote much of it during lockdown, which necessitated her doing a handbrake turn in the middle of one essay, originally about how to throw a dinner party without hating your guests, and making it instead about the importance of dinner. By Nigella Lawson. Has Nigella Lawson found happiness at last? Those compotes were stirred, in deep crimson swirls, into breakfast yogurt or dishes of chilled custard. 1.25 litre capacity) / 8 inches diameter x 2 inches deep (approx. 21cm diameter x 4cm deep (approx. Gradually add the beaten eggs and almond essence, then gently fold in the flour and almond meal. I was naively gobsmacked by the gap between the image and the reality: Lawson was shy, vulnerable and so anxious she seemed to quiver in her seat. She has been talking about her love of that, and her abject terror that someone in her vicinity might be slightly peckish, for three decades now, ever since the publication of her first cookbook, 1998’s How To Eat. Remove from the oven when the filling is lightly firm and the pastry golden brown. But I’ve decided I don’t care.” I ask if she’s seeing anyone now and she laughs. 1¼ quarts capacity), and … Yes please. I guess,” she says. Makes 18. (The mixture will be fine left to stand while the first batch bakes.). As a child, food was “a horror”. I’ve brought three bags! Well, of course she is: the only thing that would be more on brand would be if she were suggestively licking a spoon. There have been bag after bag of them in the fridge since the first Turkish fruits arrived at my greengrocer’s in May. Last night, for a NYE party, I made a delicious apple crumble from Nigella Lawson's cookbook "How To Eat". Recipe Tips. With her second husband, Charles Saatchi, in 2009. Top with the crumble mixture and bake for 20-30 minutes, or until the topping is golden-brown. “I think it’s about keeping a bit of yourself there.” When she divorced Saatchi, she asked for no money, only the contents of the kitchen. See below for the recipe. She hesitates and then says, “I’m not sure I would have thought I’d be a mended person, which I am.”, Did she feel under pressure to maintain a strong image during the trial? When they’re ready, set them aside. If cherries are perfect, I do very little to them, tipping the fruit into a bowl of water and ice cubes for 20 minutes before we eat – a process which makes their juice all the more refreshing. ... Rice Pudding Cake; and Cherry and Almond Crumble. Like the whole of Britain, I had followed the Grillos’ trial, and in particular the photos of Lawson arriving at it every day: hair blow-dried to perfection, chin always up; she looked gloriously defiant, even as she went through what was obviously a horrific ordeal. Put the cherries in a small saucepan with the sugar and vermouth and bring to the boil. Lawson divorced him shortly afterwards, but her private life was laid more bare than ever just a few months later, when the couple’s former assistants, Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo, were taken to court, accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds using the household’s credit cards. But if you feel you would stay there for ever, you have to push on,” she says. He was diagnosed with cancer at 43, when their children were still babies, and his first thought was for Lawson, who had already been through so much. When life is taking away your happiness, you hold on to the few pleasures you can control. Leave the tarts to settle for 5 minutes before carefully removing them for their tins to a cooling rack set over a tray. Friends recall cosy dinners round theirs with Diamond, the ebullient host, and Lawson quietly enjoying herself by his side, learning from him how to be comfortable in herself. Reaching out, making connections,” she says. “Believe me, I spent a lot of time under a duvet. On top of any natural shyness, Lawson was clearly, it seemed, traumatised by the court case. Cherry almond tarts . You will probably make about 18 with a little rerolling of the offcuts. Top in main image: stories.com. When Diamond died of cancer, she took just two weeks off from filming her show, although she later said she had depression afterwards. “He was her gregarious side and she was his calm, and then those roles had to switch,” McErlane says. The losses she has endured in adulthood verge on the gothic. “And that really does surprise me, because I didn’t think [happiness] was one of my gifts,” she says. Deselect All. Nigella Lawson – Britain’s only true “surname unnecessary” global celebrity since Princess Diana – is feeding everyone. ISBN: 9781784743666. 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