Nigella Feasts is the third cooking show hosted by Nigella Lawson and her first foray into American television.
The 13-part series originally aired in the USA on the Food Network, from September 2006.
Nigella Feasts originally aired in South Africa on DStv's BBC Food channel from 27 January to 20 April 2008, on Sundays at 10h30.
Nigella Feasts premiered on SABC3 on Saturday 24 January 2009, at 11h00. There are 13 half-hour episodes in the series.
Synopsis
She’s a world famous writer, a mother, and a great cook with an appetite. She has a burning love of life and a passion for food. She’s gorgeous, articulate and amusing. She’s one of the most influential chefs in the USA and around the world.
Nigella Feasts is a mouth-watering feast for millions of food loving viewers. It’s a total immersion in Nigella’s food life and the delicious feasts she cooks for herself, her friends, family, and colleagues and now for people around the world.
Each episode is based around a theme and contains a mix of irresistibly easy recipes, tips, philosophies, fuss free principles and uncomplicated ideas that make cooking and entertaining a breeze.
The recipes are taken from Nigella's best-seller "Feast – Food That Celebrates Life".
In each show there’s plenty of eating – from full on feasts for major rites of passage, simple lunches, no stress entertaining, midnight snacks and easy midweek suppers with a girlfriend through to no cook, no stress meals.
Slicing through each show are little bites that reveal the inner Nigella, from her favourite cook books to her surfing of the net for ever more outrageous food products and cookbooks.