Article: Domestic Goddess turns picnic princess.

Byline: ALEXA BARACAIA

THIS is "domestic goddess" Nigella Lawson in a new role as a Fifties housewife.

The cookery writer has swapped her plunging dresses for a sky blue polkadot frock, teamed with a pink mohair cardigan.

The new shoot is featured in the latest issue of Waitrose Food Illustrated, in which Lawson offers her recipe for a perfect summer picnic.

And it is a decidedly Fifties recipe.

While she admits she has "neither a natural affinity with picnics nor their supposed vital ingredient" - sunshine - she lays out some strict guidelines for entertaining outdoors.

Primary among them is ...

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