Hailed by many as their cookbook of 1998, if not the decade. How To Eat is far more than just an imaginative collection of over 350 uncomplicated, delicious recipes. Nigella Lawson combines a refreshingly down-to-earth practicality with a passion for food and a writer's ability to find just the right words to evoke the taste of a succulent roast chicken or a home-made custard. Her excellent advice on how to organise your kitchen (and your life) for the minimum of fuss is interspersed with moments of sheer, unadulterated pleasure as she pauses to relish what she is preparing to eat. Now available as a high-quality, good-value trade paperback, readers will be able to buy two copies: one for the kitchen, one for the bed-side table. (19990330)
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Nigella Lawson has long been among the most realistic as well as the most readable of writers on food. Her description of a three-star dinner really is a good second best to actually eating it yourself. But equally she knows the inestimable value of a bacon sandwich on sliced white. This wonderful book combines both of these talents as she sets out on the ambitious task to impart no less than "the Pleasures and Principles of Good Food". The book is neatly divided into categories--cooking in advance, weekend lunch, low fat and so on--each with its own passionate and intelligent introductory essay. The recipes are straightforwardly presented and the occasional school-mistress tone--"you must keep your stock in the freezer", "I loathe the acrid dustiness of standard-issue sherry"--is always justified by its implication of an entirely proper seriousness and her endless common sense. But most of all Lawson is a greedy eater who knows about food and can write like an angel. "I hate the new-age voodoo about eating", she declares. "The notion that foods are either harmful or healing, that a good diet makes you a good person". Hurrah! How to Eat is the perfect book for anyone who knows that food is more than fuel. --Nick Wroe
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The one book you have to buy this year (Daily Mail )
My book of the decade (Nigel Slater )
The domestic bible for the millennium generation (Spectator )
If you could have just one food book this year, make it How To Eat (Time Out )
A love letter to all things culinary (Tatler 20020614)
My book of the decade (Nigel Slater )
The domestic bible for the millennium generation (Spectator )
If you could have just one food book this year, make it How To Eat (Time Out )
A love letter to all things culinary (Tatler 20020614)
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By "paulblocks"
Format:Hardcover
How to eat is the stickiest cookery book that I own, simply because I use it almost every day. I have not reccomended this to friends, I just pretend that I have always made perfect pastry, delicious ice cream and sumptuous cakes - instinctively.
Nigella Lawson's gift is that she lets you pretend that she is as cack handed as you or I undoubtedly are and fills you with an enthusiasm for eating which quickly lures you stoveside. I have read this book quite a few times, almost as you would read a novel and have found it extremely comforting. Buy it if only to make the ham in coke, (sounds disgusting I know - but tastes fab), the pastry - it has never failed me and everybody is impressed by home made pastry. Plus the writing, this really makes you feel that you have a friend and a glass of wine in the kitchen with you.
Nigella Lawson's gift is that she lets you pretend that she is as cack handed as you or I undoubtedly are and fills you with an enthusiasm for eating which quickly lures you stoveside. I have read this book quite a few times, almost as you would read a novel and have found it extremely comforting. Buy it if only to make the ham in coke, (sounds disgusting I know - but tastes fab), the pastry - it has never failed me and everybody is impressed by home made pastry. Plus the writing, this really makes you feel that you have a friend and a glass of wine in the kitchen with you.
If I could only buy one cookery book, this would be it.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
More like an evening in with your best mate and a bottle of wine than a cookbook, Nigella Lawson's book is just brilliant. It's absorbing, funny, intelligent, and completely addictive - and that's before you even get to the recipes! Totally unpretentious yet gloriously indulgent, packed full of sensible, practical advice that will boost the kitchen confidence of even the most cack-handed cooks. I've read this over and over again and am not bored of either the writing or the recipes. Great to see a cookbook that revels in greed and has a healthily dismissive additide to food fads, dieting and general gastronomic snobbery. Buy it!
38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
By C. Austin
Format:Paperback
I've had this book for about four years now. I had browsed through it a couple of times in bookshops but decided against it because it didn't have any pictures. It was only after I bought and loved Domestic Goddess that I decided to give this a try. It's fantastic! I have used this book time and time again. I think I counted about thirty recipes that I've tried and enjoyed, which is more than I have used any other book in my collection. What is more, I have more success with Nigella's recipes than almost any other recipe book writer; she's very reliable. I highly recommend this (and Domestic Goddess).
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Brilliant book, quick delivery - thankyou
fast delivery and packaged well - the book is brilliant - lots of information and guidance around food and reasons for cooking - also some very good recipes.
Published 26 days ago by claudine
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Good addition to my cookbook library
Don't know how I got on before I laid eyes on that one, first borrowed it from my neighbour, then got my own and it's open nearly every day. Read more
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A nice 'read'....even without doing any actual cooking!
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Print too small
Plenty of information. The size and clarity of the print in place took away the pleasure of reading the book. Perhaps this was a fault on this issue.
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The book which started it
I got this to replace ny old copy which was destroyed in a fire. This was the book which really got my cooking mojo going,
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This is a really thick book but there is far too much reading to do and I like lots of pictures so I know what i am supposed to be producing at the end.
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Yum yum yum!
Bought as a Christmas gift but it's been recommended by so many people....I'm expecting it to be fabulous! Hope I get to taste some of the recipes.
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Not Just a cook book
I have had How to Eat for many years now and it is my all time favorite read, its not just a Cook book its a damned good read, I have it at my bedside most of the time and just... Read more
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