At the risk of sounding like a terrible journalist, late last year culinary icon Nigella Lawson shared her favourite cookbook with me, and I’ve been – as the Gen Zs say – gatekeeping the information ever since.
Sat in a cosy corner of an east London home (not Nigella’s), where we were about to have lunch in celebration of her collaboration with online supermarket Ocado, I asked the clumsy question: “What’s your most treasured cookbook, if you had to choose one? I know that’s a difficult question – but which is your most battered?”
