Nigella Lawson is a judge on and a producer of ABC’s primetime cooking competition show, The Taste. She shares why she champions home cooking, what she likes about blind tasting, and more about the show’s “shouty” boys.

At 17, Nigella Lawson fell in love -- with Italy. The love affair turned out to be more than a just another teen romance. Decades later, the author of Nigellissima shares her stories about the country and its food.

After a promotional photoshoot for ABC's primetime cooking show The Taste, Nigella Lawson blogged about a minor spat with the program's marketing department, in which she refused to allow her body shape to be altered in post-production.