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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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'How to Eat may just be the best cookery book ever', The Daily Telegraph .'A love letter to all things culinary', Tatler .'A gloriously sensual wander through the possibilities of food. The recipes read more like seduction than instruction', Independent
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60 of 60 people found the following review helpful
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.
29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is the most useful book I have in my collection. Everybody can use it - if you are single, if you are dieting, if you have small kids, if you are having a dinner party.... Nigella has suggestions for what to cook!
Read it and learn a lot about methods, measurements, indgredients - use the recipes as they are or be inspired to invent your own recipe - and the book is perfect for bedtime-reading!
In a few words - this book has everything!
Read it and learn a lot about methods, measurements, indgredients - use the recipes as they are or be inspired to invent your own recipe - and the book is perfect for bedtime-reading!
In a few words - this book has everything!
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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!
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A foodies cookbook!
As an avid home cook borderline frustrated chef I love a good cook book! I don't just buy them and have a great line up just for show in the kitchen either, (You know, like people... Read more
Published 9 days ago by K. MOONEY
Very enjoyable
This is an interesting cookbook. It reads more like a novel - or, perhaps more accurately, an autobiography - than a cookbook, and I have found myself reading it in bed at night,... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Alice
A Slow Burner
I am a recent convert to Nigella despite the fact she's been about for years, I bought my first Nigella book only last month (it was Domestic Goddess). Read more
Published 10 months ago by cupcake girl
the very talented ms lawson
This is such a wonderful book. I have had it for years and years, I read it over breakfast and chuckle at Nigella's obvious joy of life and food; I read it in bed and think about... Read more
Published 11 months ago by clarehanna
Totally reliable every time
What I love about Nigella's books is that she treats the reader like she's in the kitchen with you, it's like learning from a fun aunt! Read more
Published 13 months ago by bookaddict
great buy
for those who like to read about cooking and then try different things. has recipes amongst the prose so not set up in a traditional way but a great read. Read more
Published 14 months ago by DJ
my cookery bible
I have had my own copy of this book for years (back in the day when Nigella used to appear as a guest on Nigel Slater's cookery show), it is covered in marks, bits of food and has... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mandy
The Basics
A great read in addition to bullet-proof recipes. I have How to Eat as well as Domestic Goddess and Nigella Express, and this is by far my favourite and the one I use most. Read more
Published 19 months ago by night_0wl
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Professional handling from order, payment and delivery. Delivered several days before deadline, so we can only give our best recommendation for dealing here again. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Peder Rasmussen
very useful book, love the section for cooking for children
Beginning to end, its a book you will want read and actually be encouraged to try the recipes. Very easy to read & follow.very useful indeed.
Published 23 months ago by Maurice Hedenskog
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