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by Nigella Lawson (Author) "The Great Culinary Renaissance we have heard so much about has done many things-given us extra virgin olive oil, better restaurants, and gastroporn-but it hasn't..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 537 pages
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus (28 Sep 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701165766
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701165765
  • Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 20 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,390 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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," or "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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"Her prose is as nourishing as her recipes--it should please mere readers, serious cooks and happy omnivores." - Salman Rushdie

"I love Nigella Lawson's writing and I love her recipes." - Delia Smith

"One of the best and most influential of British food writers--bound to become a staple cookbook for a whole generation." - Ruth Rogers, "The River Cafe Cook Book

"Cerebral and scintillating advice--peppered with wit." - "Sunday Times

"A gloriously sensual wander through the possibilities of food. The recipes read more like seduction than instruction." - "Independent

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Stickiest book I own, 14 Dec 2002
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.

If I could only buy one cookery book, this would be it.

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars It's the US version, 1 Feb 2004
This review is from: How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (Hardcover)
No problems with the book, but this is the US version - hence measurements in cups, degrees Farenheit, etc.
Just thought I'd post a warning.....
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The most thumbed cookery book on my kitchen shelf, by far..., 24 May 2000
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This review is from: How to Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (Cookery) (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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