Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780701169114
ISBN: 0701169117
Label: Chatto & Windus
Manufacturer: Chatto & Windus
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: September 02, 1999
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Sales Rank: 963
Studio: Chatto & Windus

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• Nigella Lawson Living Kitchen Bread Bin Beech/Cream
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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
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




Rating: - 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 anecdote that makes wonderful reading.

I've made a few dishes from "How to Eat" and I think her stews do work as well as making the best roast chicken, beef & gravy!

I would recommend the following:
Basic Roast Chicken- pp. 8-9
Chicken & Chick pea Tagine- pp. 111-2
Beef Stew ... Read More

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Rating: - 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. i don't call it cook book, as it's not only tell you how to cook, but the food philosophy.

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Rating: - 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. However in practice I never use it. I often pick it up for inspiration but I almost never cook from it. I don't use a recipe book for everyday cooking and nothing in this book is ever quite what I am looking for if I am cooking for a family gathering or a dinner party. Nigella's lemon meringue icecream is now a staple in our house, but not ... Read More

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Rating: - 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. There's no perfectly presented meal to depress you when your own effort looks as if it were thrown at the plate.
I love the straight forward-ness of the recipes, and like all Nigella books her expectation that you will probably substitute ingredients.
I've made the macaroni cheese from the "Cooking for babies ... Read More

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Rating: - 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 it for the first time.
I then realised it has all the basics that you need to know and things that i was never taught at home (as i'm not english).it was great to get an idea for things such as lunch and dinner.Last night i tried the salmon baked in foil and believe me it was good!
There may not be any pictures but ... Read More

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