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Jewish Cook Nigella Lawson Is Joining ‘The Great British Baking Show’

JL;DR SUMMARY Nigella Lawson, a renowned British Jewish cookbook author and television personality, is set to join The Great British Baking Show as a judge, becoming the first Jewish judge in the show's history. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CuisineJewish RepresentationJewish HeritageRugelachCultural JudaismNigella LawsonBritish TelevisionThe Great British Baking ShowPrue LeithCulinary Judges

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London, United Kingdom
"Celebrated British Jewish cookbook author and utterly comforting TV personality (and Jewish mom of two!) Nigella Lawson will be replacing judge Prue Leith."
Australia
"They were totally, culturally, Jewish from cooking too much, to feeding anyone the moment they walk through the door, and giving them things to take home, Lawson said of her parents to the Australian Jewish News."
Canada
"One puzzling thing: Nigella calls rugelach scuffles, a word I have never heard, but one that may be used in Canada to describe the rolled pastry."

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