Nigellissima: public losing taste for Nigella Lawson's latest book Cookbooks by the Hairy Bikers and Nigel Slater have also recorded better sales. "The public have generally preferred their quick-and-easy and baking cookbooks over the past couple of years," Philip Stone, charts editor at The Bookseller, told the Daily Mail. Miss Lawson's new tome may have also suffered from the fact that Italian cookery isn't as en vogue as other areas within the cookery sector. The Domestic Goddess, 52, has come under fire previously over the unhealthy desserts featured in the Nigellissima television series. Among her recipes include a chocolate hazelnut cheesecake containing 75 grams of butter, 500g of cream cheese and 400g of Nutella chocolate spread, which has almost 7,100 calories. Italian connoisseurs have also argued that her recipes lacked authenticity. Earlier this week doctors said that cookery programmes featuring the likes of Miss Lawson and Jamie Oliver should not be shown before the 9pm watershed because their meals are so unhealthy. Miss Lawson published her first cookbook in 1998 and has earned more than £50 million from book sales around the world. Her spokesman has not commented on the figures.