![]() ![]() Q: How would you describe your take on Italian cuisine?Ī: “I suppose what I bring to it is a slightly more contemporary, urban edge in the sense that I live a busy modern city life, whereas so many Italian recipes come from a time when women were expected to spend a long time in the kitchen. But this is the only time I’ve done a book with such a narrow focus geographically.” Because Italy has been such a big influence in my life, in my cooking life, there are actually more Italian recipes in my other books. ![]() It’s the first that’s just Italian, or Italian-inspired. cooking show “The Taste,” spoke to Reuters about creating recipes and about how her most joyful moment in the kitchen is opening the fridge, seeing what is inside and trying to make something taste good from it, which she admits is “absolutely the antithesis of a cookery book.”Ī: “It sort of is, and isn’t. London-based Lawson, who is appearing in the U.S. “Somehow by speaking Italian, I came into the person I am,” the 53-year-old, Oxford-educated cook added. Her eighth cookbook, “Nigellissima,” focuses exclusively on 120 Italian-inspired recipes. “As a teenager, what drew me was the combination of familial warmth and glamour that was somehow both earthy and chic,” Lawson said about Italy, where she lived between high school and college. British television chef Nigella Lawson, author of new cookbook called "Nigellissima," is shown in a handout photo taken in London, courtesy of Hugo Burnand. ![]()
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