Mary Berry

Nigella Lawson to join The Great British Bake Off as Judge

2026-02-01 03:20:00 UTC

The real reason I’m leaving Bake Off

2026-02-01 03:20:00 UTC

I have been dithering for years about when to stop judging The Great British Bake Off. When I joined nine years ago, I thought, since I was in my mid-seventies, that I’d be lucky to manage two years. At that age, my mother was deaf as a post and away with the fairies, believing her

The Nigella Renaissance Could Not Have Come At A Better Time

2026-02-01 03:20:00 UTC

A super-fan ever since she moved to London as a “bright-eyed and broke” twenty-something, Jessica Burrell argues that Nigella Lawson is exactly the right role model for 2026.

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Dame Mary Rosa Alleyne Hunnings DBE (née Berry; born 24 March 1935) is an English food writer, chef, baker and television presenter. After being encouraged in domestic science classes at school, she studied catering at college. She then moved to France at the age of 22 to study at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, before working in a number of cooking-related jobs.

Berry has published more than 75 cookery books, including her best-selling Baking Bible in 2009. Her first book was The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook in 1970. She hosted several television series for the BBC and Thames Television. Berry is an occasional contributor to Woman's Hour and Saturday Kitchen. She was a judge on the television programme The Great British Bake Off from 2010 until 2016.