By Brenda June Temple
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English food writer and television cook.
After graduating from Oxford, Lawson worked as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She then wrote for a number of newspapers and magazines as a freelance journalist. In 1998, her first cookery book, How to Eat, was published and sold 300,000 copies, becoming a best-seller. Her second book, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, was published in 2000, winning the British Book Award for Author of the Year.
In 1999, Lawson hosted her own cooking show series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cookbook. Nigella Bites won Lawson a Guild of Food Writers Award. Her 2005 ITV daytime chat show Nigella met with a negative critical reaction and was cancelled after attracting low ratings. She hosted the Food Network‘s Nigella Feasts in the United States in 2006, followed by a three-part BBC Two series, Nigella’s Christmas Kitchen, in the UK, which led to the commissioning of Nigella Express on BBC Two in 2007. Her own cookware range, Living Kitchen, has a value of £7 million, and she has sold more than 8 million cookery books worldwide to date.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Epiphany, which is also known as Three Kings Day, is celebrated on this date. According to the New Testament’s Gospels, it was on this date that the Magi, the three wise men or kings, venerated and brought gifts to the infant Jesus. The word epiphany is not specific to Christianity, as Zeus’s alias, Epiphanes, can attest. It comes from the Greek epiphaneia, meaning “manifestation.”
In many countries, Three Kings Day is a traditional time of gift giving. Bake a King Cake with a lucky bean inside! Whoever finds the bean is the king of the feast. Alternatively, make yourself a delicious Epiphany Tart—a Victorian-era jam tart!
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
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Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Joan of Arc (French heroine) –
- Jedediah Smith (explorer) –
- Clarence King (founder of the U.S. Geological Survey) –
- Carl Sandburg (poet) –
- Tom Mix (actor) –
- Loretta Young (actress) –
- Cary Middlecoff (golfer) –
- Earl Scruggs (musician) –
- E.L. Doctorow (writer) –
- Bonnie Franklin (actress) –
- Rowan Atkinson (actor) –
- Nigella Lawson (chef) –
Died
- Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. president) –
- Robert H.W. Welch, Jr. (founder of the John Birch Society) –
- Rudolph Nureyev (ballet dancer) –
- Dizzy Gillespie (musician) –
- Lou Rawls (singer) –
- Pat Harrington (actor) –
Events
- George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis–
- Albany designated the permanent capital of NY state–
- Indianapolis designated as the capital of the state of Indiana–
- S.F.B. Morse demonstrated his completed telegraph at the Speedwell Iron Works–
- James Plimpton received a patent for improved roller skates–
- Pendleton Act reformed U.S. civil service, initiating competitive examinations for placement–
- First women’s six-day bicycle race began, N.Y.C.–
- New Mexico admitted to the Union as the 47th state–
- President FDR delivered his Four Freedoms speech to the U.S. Congress, summarizing the goals Americans were ready to defend–
- First around-the-world commercial flight completed by Pan American Airways–
- George H. W. Bush and Barbara Pierce were married–
- U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched a major offensive against the Viet-Cong stronghold in the Mekong River delta, the first direct commitment of U.S. troops to combat in that area (Vietnam War)–
- Schoolhouse Rock! premiered–
- Global Television Network in Ontario began programming–
- First quadruplets to be conceived in a test tube were born to an Australian woman–
- A baby lion-tailed macaque named Bosco was born at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington. Lion-tailed macaques are among the most threatened of all macaque species.–
- Defending women’s figure skating national champion Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right kneecap in an off-ice attack by an unidentified assailant at the U.S. Olympic trials in Detroit, Michigan–
- NASA unveiled a breathtaking snapshot of the surface of Mars shot in color by its Spirit rover. The new color image was the sharpest photograph ever taken on Mars–
Weather
- Seattle, Washington, received 4 feet of snow, many barns were destroyed–
- Last day of severe Arctic outbreak in Midwest and South: -10 degrees F, Atlanta, Georgia–
- 14.9 inches of snow fell in Chicago, Illinois–
- Sixty-nine degrees F, Boston, Massachusetts–
- Temperatures in Miami, Florida, dropped to 35°F, causing iguanas to enter a state of hibernation and fall out of trees.–
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