I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.

It was his daughter Hannah who married Samuel Gluckstein father-in-law and business partner of Barnett Salmon and father of Isidore and Montague Gluckstein who together with Barnett founded J. She subsequently featured the recipe in her book Forever Summer with Nigella. In the UK in 2005 Lawson started to host a daytime television chat show on ITV1 called Nigella on which celebrity guests joined her in a studio kitchen.

Renowned for her flirtatious manner of presenting Lawson has been called the "queen of food porn". Lyons and Co. Lawson 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 United Kingdom.