Talk:Nigella Lawson

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Contents 1 Photo 2 Another Brother 3 "The Honourable" 4 Link to fansite 5 Title 6 Additions 7 Reference 8 Nigella's Ancestry 9 Sexual morality

[edit] Photo

Not even a wee l'il single lone photo of N.L. ?  :(

--I uploaded a scan of a publicity photo - however I have tried to specify the source correctly and failed. Image is in the first few lines of the page still if you edit it. Could someone please edit it to specify the source correctly (Scanned publicity photo) else orphanbot removes it.

[edit] Another Brother

And how could we conceivably forget the other Lawson sibling, Tommy Lawson?

[edit] "The Honourable"

Sorry for being an American, but why is this title here? Does she actually go by this title? It seems to(sic) stuffy for Nigella. Perhaps sh's not as modern as she pretends.

It is a style rather than a title, she is entitled to it because her father is a life peer. I wouldn't think for a moment that she actually uses it. Boddah 16:41, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link to fansite

We were trying to add a link to a Nigella fansite and it keep being removed. It is perfectly within the rules of Wikipedia to add fansite links and I am not sure why it keeps being arbitrarily removed without explanation. Fan sites are allowed if they are informative, not selling anything, etc.

So, while we are a fansite, we fall right within the parameters of Wikipedia's rules as being a site full of information regarding the subject at hand.

According to Wikipedia:External links, "On articles about topics with many fansites, including a link to one major fansite is appropriate, marking the link as such." Nigella Lawson doesn't have many fansites. Also, your site is just a PHP BBS, so there's little information that can help readers there. It seems to me that putting your link here is drifting into spamming. If other established users decide your link should be able to stay, I will leave things alone. — BrianSmithson 23:16, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for allowing our link to stay, but if you have not joined or seen the information available, it's hard for you to decide there isn't much content or information available.

That just strengthens my point. If there is information there, it needs to be available to the casual visitor for it to serve our readership. — BrianSmithson 18:09, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Title

I do not believe that Nigella Lawson has the title of 'Honourable'. She turned down her OBE a number of years ago.

As a title, 'honourable' is bestowed on the children of peers and was assumed when her father became Baron Lawson after leaving the Commons. I agree however that it's a bit pompous to use it in the context of this article.

[edit] Additions

In your listing of books you are missing one of Nigella's books, her first actually, Musee Imaginaire of Pasta, ISBN 8842205443, published January 1, 1999, by Umberto Allemandi.

I might also be interesting to add to your article the fact that Nigella graduated from Oxford with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages. She also has more siblings than just her brother Dominic and her sister Thomasina.

[edit] Reference

Can any reference be provided to prove that her (or indeed anyone's) favourite group is Hotsnack?

[edit] Nigella's Ancestry

According to the article she has no Sephardic ancestry. At the same time, it says she does have Jewish ancestry from the Netherlands. Forgive me, but Netherlander Jews are Sephardic. Perhaps it's the old saw of equating "Sephardic" with "Spanish/Spain," again? More likely, it's the mistake of equating "Ashkhenhazic" with "Europe." Any more info? JBDay 05:15, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

No, not all the Jewish population of the Netherlands is Sephardic, there is also an Ashkenazi element that emigrated from Germany and Eastern Europe. (Please see the article History of the Jews in the Netherlands for more information). When she explored her ancestry as part of the BBC TV series, Who Do You Think You Are? Lawson stated that she believed she looked Sephardic and Latin in complexion, and naturally assumed that the Dutch side of her family would be Sephardic. She therefore expressed some disappointment that her ancestors turned out to be Ashkenazi instead. Indisciplined 20:53, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sexual morality

"(In her newspaper articles she consistently showed a liberal attitude to sexual morality, even seeming to come close to admitting to bisexuality.)". Sexuality and sexual morality are different things entirely.. Secretlondon 09:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Entirely? Nothing ever seems entirely disconnected from everything else. Reading the article, it looks as though she went as far as she felt she could in telling everyone to grow up about these matters. The sooner everyone accepts each other the better. I appreciate her writing so candidly.62.64.218.49 15:13, 29 March 2007 (UTC)