The food writer Nigella Lawson, 63, started out as deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times. Her first book, How to Eat, published in 1998, has been followed by 11 more bestsellers. Her TV shows have included Nigella: At My Table and Simply Nigella, and she will be presenting a BBC Christmas special, Nigella’s Amsterdam Christmas. She has two children with the late journalist John Diamond, and is divorced from her second husband, Charles Saatchi. She lives in London.
I adhere to two rules for a successful family Christmas dinner. The first is that you have to accept that you can’t get everything cooked at the same time, so don’t worry if everything’s not hot. It just can’t be. So long as
