Feast: Food That Celebrates Life - Softcover

Lawson, Nigella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0676974139 ISBN 13: 9780676974133

Publisher: Knopf Canada, 2006

Synopsis

Feast is written to stand alongside Nigella's classic and best loved book, How to Eat. Comprehensive and informed, this stunning new book will be equally at home in the kitchen or on the bedside table.

A feast for both the eyes and the senses, written with Nigella Lawson's characteristic flair and passion, Feast: Food that Celebrates Life is a major book in the style of her classic How to Eat, applying Nigella's "Pleasures and Principles of Good Food" to the celebrations and special occasions of life.

Essentially about families and food, about public holidays and private passions, about how to celebrate the big occasions and the small everyday pleasures -- those times when food is more than just fuel -- Feast takes us through Christmas, Thanksgiving and birthdays, to Passover and a special Sardinian Easter; from that first breakfast together to a meal fit for the in-laws; from seasonal banquets of strawberries or chestnuts to the ultimate chocolate cake; from food for cheering up the "Unhappy Hour" to funeral baked-meats; from a Georgian feast to a love-fest; from Nigella's all-time favourite dish to a final New Year fast.

Evocative, gorgeous, refreshingly uncomplicated and full of ideas, Feast proclaims Nigella's love of life and great food with which to celebrate it. Packed with over 200 recipes from all over the world -- and from near home -- with helpful menus for whole meals, and more than 120 colour photographs, Feast is destined to become a classic.

About this title

Product Description:

Containing over 300 recipes and more than 200 photos, this title talks about families and food, about public holidays and private passions, and about how to celebrate the small pleasures. It includes almost everything from Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Eid, to Passover and Easter; from Meatless Feasts to Midnight Feasts, and more.

Review:

"[Nigella's] fifth book is the best since her first. As [did] How to Eat this book appeals to both the cook and the reader. Nigella's feasts range from a funeral reception to a Passover seder always using tempting yet simple dishes."
--the cookbook store

"Impressive battle plans for grand dinners and family celebrations."
--Maclean's

"Britain's resident sultry queen of the kitchen."
--Flare

"Britain's finger-licking domestic goddess has morphed into a holiday deity with her latest cookbook, emphasizing that feasts for friends and family don't have to be daunting."
--The Chronicle Herald (Halifax) [Canadian Press]

"She's funny and sexy, her food looks amazing and her blasé manner convinces even the most determined of kitchen loathers that cooking isn't drudgery but something to be enjoyed. . . . The writing is witty, crisp and casual. . . .The photography is gorgeous in its simplicity and homeyness."
--The Chronicle Herald (Halifax)

"A 472-page cookbook that features sumptuous recipes that honour the small everyday pleasures of life, as well as customary rites of passage."
--The Leader Post (Regina)

"Like her other books, [Feast] is full of recipes both casual and fanciful, stunning photography and her endearing style of writing that'll keep you happily reading for hours and inspire confidence in even the clumsiest of cooks."
--The Hamilton Spectator

"Feast is simply the cream of the crop of holiday cookbooks."
--Metro (Toronto)

"This book is as luscious and extravagant as the diva herself."
--National Post

"It's beauty and the feast. . . . Lawson's recipes are straightforward, never pretentious and easy to follow. . . . What's neat about her books is her smart, sassy presence, guiding you through the cooking process."
--The Standard (St. Catharines)

"A gem of a thick, fat book brimming with Nigella-isms."
--The Toronto Sun

"A great sense of place and occasion in a recipe book... Nigella is a very talented and evocative food writer."
--Time Out (UK)

"Nigella has become the idealised home maker de nos jours, the domestic cook we would all like to aspire to be, Mrs Beaton cum Constance Spry cum Jane Grigson cum Caroline Conran. Her recipes are rich and motherly and sustaining and sexy, just as she is. The finished dishes gleam up from the photographs, not artful, glossy and precise as if they had been made by a team of home economists and food stylists, but artless, homely and natural, as they would appear in our own kitchens.... Feast, like so much of Lawson's work, is a voluptuous and delicious piece of food writing.... This is the kind of food we can dream of cooking."
--The Guardian (UK)

Praise for How to Eat
"Her prose is as nourishing as her recipes and makes How to Eat a book that should please mere readers as well as serious cooks and happy omnivores."
--Salman Rushdie

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0676974139
• ISBN 13: 9780676974133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480