About Nigella Lawson- Her Food Shows And Recipes

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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. This is a saying by Norman Borlaug on food. Food has remained one of the primary basic needs of every human being. But in this fast paced world of technical advancement we fail to recognize the importance of taking a balanced diet. With the arrival of numerous cookery shows food has evolved into a whole new dimension. A TV cooking show allows you to watch the preparation of a dish on the television which is prepared by a celebrity chef. The host of the show prepares one or more dishes during the course of the show and also guides the audience through all the intermediate stages of cooking the dish.

Actually these cookery shows have evolved in such a way that there are exclusive channels for such shows. Let's talk about one such food show which is aired on TLC by one of the world's most influential cooks Nigella Lawson. She is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster. She graduated from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Univeristy. She went on to become the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. ...
... Nigella is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, who was a former Member of the parliament and the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet and Vanessa Salmon, a socialite and the heiress to the J. Lyons & Co. fortune. They lead a luxurious life. Her parents divorced in 1980 and this led to a strained relationship between Nigella and her parents. She enjoyed cooking right from her childhood as her mother influenced her a lot. She hosted her own cooking show called Nigella bites and the show was filmed in her home in west London.

Nigella is known for her charismatic appearance and her unique way of presenting her shows. Let's learn to cook one of her most famous recipes the chocolate cheese cake. The ingredients required for the cheese cake are graham cracker crumbs, butter, cocoa, semi sweet chocolate, cream cheese, sugar, custard powder and eggs. The graham crackers are first processed and the butter and cocoa are added to it and finally it is pressed into the desired shape and freezed to make the base. To make the filling the chocolate is melted and set aside to cool. The cream cheese is beaten in order for it to soften. Now sugar and custard powder are added to the mixture. Once they are mixed well, the eggs along with sour cream and the melted chocolate are added to make the batter. A spring form tin is seated in a roasting pan and the cheese cake filling is poured into it. The roasting pan is filled with water just enough to come half way up the cake tin. It is now baked for around 45 minutes. The top of the cheese cake needs to be set but the bottom should still have a wobble to it.
It needs to be put in the refrigerator once it is no longer hot and left overnight to set and cool. In order to make the chocolate sauce, ingredients such as chocolate, cream and the syrup are melted and then poured over the cake. Finally the cake is done and ready to melt in your mouth.

The best part of the show is the way in which the ingredients are described and prepared. She is the bestselling author of eight books Nigella Express: Good Food Fast, Feast: Food to Celebrate Life, Nigella Fresh, Nigella Bites, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, and How to Eat. More than 6 million copies of these books have been sold all over the world. I recently watched a show of hers on TV provided by FIOS TV and it was a visual treat altogether

I am a free lancer and a food fanatic. I love to write about food shows and various recipes presented by hosts such as Nigella Lawson. In my free time I like to munch cookies and watch my favorite cookery shows on TV from service providers such as FiOS TV.