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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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  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus; New edition edition (2 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701169117
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701169114
  • Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 18.8 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (66 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,145 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", "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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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Stickiest book I own, 14 Dec 2002
This review is from: How to Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (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.

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

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27 of 27 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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5.0 out of 5 stars The most thumbed cookery book on my kitchen shelf, by far..., 24 May 2000
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars For a cookbook obsessive, this is high praise!
I have owned How to Eat since it first came out, and it is still, after all the competition, the cookbook I would chose if I had to ditch all the rest. Read more
Published 9 days ago by C. Moir

5.0 out of 5 stars The essential cookbook for everyone
You can't go wrong with Nigella's books, especially this one. It teaches you all the basics, has loads of tips and some really great recipies. Read more
Published 26 days ago by L. Stewart

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written book that really inspires
The title reflects Nigella's approach - it's how to eat, not how to cook. At heart, Nigella is a food journalist and while this book lacks the glossy pictures that more recent... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Ripple

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful reading and cooking
I like the way Nigella writes- it's as if you're having a conversation with her. The introduction to each recipe is always good, a bit of historical information or personal... Read more
Published 16 months ago by grumpyyoungwoman

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended
if you can only have one food book in your life time, then it'll gotta be 'how to eat'. buy two, one by your bed side and one for cooking use. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Ip W. C. Maggie

2.0 out of 5 stars Fun at first but never gets used
When I first received this book, I enjoyed reading through it and the organisation of recipes depending on the event you are cooking for is a nice change. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mrs Chuck

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my most used books
I bought this title after Domestic Goddess had enchanted me. Initially the lack of pictures rather put me off, it is a very wordy book, but I've come to see that as an advantage... Read more
Published 23 months ago by IngestedKitten

5.0 out of 5 stars Great from basics to advanced!
I bought this book last year and the one thing that had put me off was that there were no pictures, so it was difficult to get an idea of a recipe-especially if you were cooking... Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2007 by S. Yasmin

1.0 out of 5 stars This appears to be a minority view
This book is now gathering dust in my garage. This seems to be a minority view, but this book failed to inspire me. Read more
Published on 10 Jul 2007 by Peter

5.0 out of 5 stars Ranks in my top ten all-time cookbooks!
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. Read more
Published on 26 April 2006 by C. Austin

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