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}} Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English journalist, broadcaster, television personality, gourmet, and food writer. She is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, the former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Vanessa (née Salmon) Lawson, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. food and catering business. After graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=LMH, Oxford - Prominent Alumni )〕 Lawson started work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of ''The Sunday Times'' in 1986. She then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines. In 1998, she brought out her first cookery book, ''How to Eat'', which sold 300,000 copies and became a best-seller. She wrote her second book in 2000, ''How to Be a Domestic Goddess'', which won her the British Book Award for Author of the Year. In 1999, she hosted her own cooking show series, ''Nigella Bites'', on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cook book. ''Nigella Bites'' won Lawson a Guild of Food Writers Award; her 2005 ITV daytime chat show ''Nigella'' was met with a negative critical reaction and was cancelled after attracting low ratings. She hosted the Food Network's ''Nigella Feasts'' in the United States in 2006, followed by a three-part BBC Two series, ''Nigella's Christmas Kitchen'', in the UK, which led to the commissioning of ''Nigella Express'' on BBC Two in 2007. Her own cookware range, Living Kitchen, has a value of £7 million, and she has sold more than 3 million cookery books worldwide to date. ==Early life and education== Lawson was born in Wandsworth, London, one of the daughters of Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby,〔Farndale, Nigel. ("A woman of extremes" ). ''The Daily Telegraph'', 14 May 2001; retrieved 29 September 2007.〕 a former Conservative MP, and a former Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher's government, and his first wife, Vanessa (née Salmon; 1936–1985),〔Peterson, Thane. (Chewing the Fat with Nigella Lawson ). ''Bloomberg BusinessWeek'', 19 October 2002; retrieved 29 September 2007〕 a socialite, "celebrated beauty"〔(Nigella Lawson: A sweet and sour life ) BBC News Friday, 18 May 2001〕 and heiress to the J. Lyons and Co. fortune.〔Bilmes, Alex. (Say what you like about Nigella Lawson ). ''Q'', 2001; retrieved 29 September 2007.〕 Her parents both came from Jewish families.〔("Spice of life Nigella Lawson endured the very public death of her husband to cancer. Now she has a new partner, has she found the recipe for happiness?" ); 7 September 2002, ''The Herald Scotland''〕〔("Nigel Lawson, Energy" ). 15 September 1981, ''The Glasgow Herald''〕 Her given name was originally suggested by her grandmother.〔Hattenstone, Sam. (Reality bites ). ''The Guardian'', 2 September 2002. Retrieved 7 February 2008.〕 Her family kept homes in Kensington and Chelsea.〔O'Brien, Catherine. (A modest goddess ). ''The Times'', 13 October 2000; retrieved 16 July 2008.〕〔''A.J. Ayer: A Life'', by Ben Rogers, (Vintage, 2000), p. 42〕 Nigel and Vanessa Lawson divorced in 1980. They both remarried: her father in 1980 to a House of Commons researcher, Therese Maclear (to whom he was married until 2008), and her mother, in the early 1980s, to philosopher A. J. Ayer (they remained married until her mother's death).〔 As her father, Nigel, is a prominent political figure, some of the things she found frustrating were the judgements and pre-conceptions about her.〔 She has attributed her unhappiness as a child, in part, to the problematic relationship she had with her mother.〔 Lawson's mother died of liver cancer in Westminster, London at the age of 48.〔〔 Lawson's full-blood siblings are her brother, Dominic, former editor of ''The Sunday Telegraph'', sister Horatia, and sister Thomasina, who died of breast cancer in 1993 during her early thirties;〔〔Turner, Janice. (The N Factor ). ''The Times'', 1 September 2007; retrieved 1 October 2007.〕〔(Rich, creamy and chocolatey ). ''The Daily Telegraph'', 25 September 2005; retrieved 1 February 2008.〕 She has a half-brother, Tom, and a half-sister, Emily, her father's children by his second wife. Lawson is a cousin to both George Monbiot and Fiona Shackleton through the Salmon family.〔(Profile: Fiona Shackleton ). ''The Times'', 23 March 2008; retrieved 22 July 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nigella Lawson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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