Nigella Lawson

Despite having never trained as a chef, Nigella Lawson built a one-woman empire around the joy of cooking and eating food. She penned some of the most popular books on those subjects in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including 1998's How to Eat and How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking (2000), which won her the prestigious British Book Award. Lawson's success in the publishing field led to a string of successful television programs for the BBC, which also caught on in the United States, as well as a line of kitchenware which took households by storm. The cherry on top? Lawson, considered a bit of a full-figured gal even by her own admission, became a popular sex symbol, with her dark beauty coupled with her ingenious talents in the kitchen - licking chocolate-covered spoons on a regular basis - winning the hearts of lusty men across the world.