Nigella Lawson

Despite having never trained as a chef, Nigella Lawson built a one-woman empire around the joy of cooking and eating food. She penned some of the most popular books on those subjects in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including 1998's How to Eat and How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking (2000), which won her the prestigious British Book Award. Lawson's success in the publishing field led to a string of successful …