Nigella Lucy Lawson is an English food writer and television chef. She is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, Lord Lawson of Blaby, a former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Vanessa (née Salmon) Lawson, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. food and catering business.
She attended Godolphin and Latymer School, London. After graduating from the University of Oxford, Lawson started work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday T
