An Evening With Nigella Lawson at Eccles Theater

“Food, for me, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it, reflect deeply on it, learn from it; it provides comfort, inspiration, meaning and beauty… More than just a mantra, “cook, eat, repeat” is the story of my life.” Internationally renowned food writer and TV cook Nigella Lawson has eleven bestselling books to her name and several successful TV series. Now, her approach to cooking has never been more relevant, serving up an abundance of inspiration for every generation.

Spend an evening with Nigella as she shares the rhythms and rituals of her kitchen to celebrate her latest book Cook, Eat, Repeat – a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food, all written in Nigella’s engaging and insightful prose.

Despite often being labelled as a "domestic goddess" Nigella Lawson insists that she exhibits very few of the qualities associated with the title. In 1998 her first cookery book, How to Eat, was published and sold over 300,000 copies, becoming an instant bestseller. Her second book, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, published in 2000, won her British Book Award for Author of the Year. Her own cookware range, Living Kitchen, has a value of £10 million, and she has sold more than 8 million cookery books worldwide to date.

Nigella Lawson was featured as one of the three judges on a special battle of Iron Chef America, and she has appeared four times in episodes of Master Chef Australia, between 2016 and 2019. Her unimaginable influence as a food commentator is attested to, after she had lauded goose fat as being an essential ingredient for Christmas. Sales of the product increased significantly in the UK. Waitrose and Tesco both stated that goose fat sales had more than doubled, and Asda's increasing by 65%. After she advised using prunes in a recipe on Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, Waitrose had increased sales of 30% year-on-year. This was further demonstrated when sales of Riesling wine increased by 30% in the UK after she had incorporated it into her Coq au Riesling recipe on Nigella Express.