Nigella Lawson shares her top tip for making the perfect crispy fries without a trace of grease

Nigella Lawson shares her top tip for making the perfect crispy fries without a trace of grease – and it involves placing them in COLD oil to cook Nigella Lawson, 60, shared her recipe for the perfect Tuscan fries on Instagram She said the secret to oil-free fries is putting the raw potatoes into cold oil   … Read more

Nigella Lawson shares her four ‘edicts for an easier existence’

Nigella Lawson has shared her four ‘edicts for an easier existence’ which include applying dry shampoo before bed and not worrying about serving ‘piping hot’ food.  In her final column for The Sunday Times Style magazine, the TV chef, 60, from London, revealed her guide to ‘the art of getting through life’ and ‘smoothing a path through every … Read more

Nigella Lawson is back filming… but isn’t her face mask the kind of muslin she uses to strain jam?

Nigella Lawson is back filming her screen comeback… but isn’t her face mask the kind of muslin she usually uses to strain jam? By Katie Hind Showbusiness Editor For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:42 BST, 16 August 2020 | Updated: 11:48 BST, 16 August 2020 Even Nigella Lawson would probably admit that it isn’t … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: Jeff Bezos is no saint, but could Amazon shops actually save our High Streets? 

How would you like a High Street store where you could put all your items in your bag and then take them away without having to queue up to pay? This is not legalised shoplifting but an innovation by Amazon, which, it was revealed yesterday, will soon be coming to the UK.  This new chain … Read more

Nigella Lawson reveals list of her favourite comfort foods

Even Domestic Goddesses love fish finger sandwiches! Nigella Lawson reveals her top comfort food including plain bread and butter and the school dinner classic of steamed syrup sponge and custard Nigella Lawson has revealed her seven favourite comfort foods on Twitter Food writer, 60, said steamed syrup cake was her favourite nostalgic recipe  Others on … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: What has ‘builder’ Boris got against the miners of Northumberland? 

The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, says his priority is: ‘Jobs, jobs, jobs.’ For Boris Johnson, it is: ‘Build, build, build.’ Last week, the Prime Minister declared his commitment to end unwarranted delays in the decision-making process, so as to make sure the planning system delivers the infrastructure and employment we all want. Yet the Conservative Government … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: First they came for the statues, now stained glass windows

First they came for the statues; then they came for the stained glass windows. Yes, the fashion (at least among undergraduates) for trashing commemorative edifices is developing new forms. And in one particular case, the targeted memorial is barely 30 years old. This is the Sir Ronald Fisher memorial, a stained glass window in the … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: Life post-Covid? What we can ALL learn from the Japanese 

For those of us sensitive to noise, the rules likely to govern public manners as the nation eases out of lockdown seem almost like paradise, and certainly an improvement on the pre-Covid-19 social code. The new measures are based on the scientists’ belief that talking loudly produces thousands of droplets, which can remain in the … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: The race protesters who defaced Churchill’s statue are perverse and offensive

Some images from the Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Saturday will linger long in the memory.  The sheer scale and physical density of the march, as viewed from above, is one, simultaneously impressive in its display of solidarity and terrifying for NHS medics anxious to avert a ‘second wave’ of Covid-19 infection.  Then … Read more

Beyonce’s mom Tina Lawson thanks everyone who demonstrated in wake of police killing of George Floyd

Tina Lawson took to Instagram with kind words to everyone who made their voice heard in the nine days since the death of an unarmed black man named George Floyd in an exchange with police in Minneapolis. The 66-year-old mother of Beyonce and Solange Knowles cited a number of different ways people spread resources and … Read more