How To Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food - Hardcover

Lawson, Nigella

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701165766 ISBN 13: 9780701165765

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1998

Synopsis

Aims to give confidence to the ordinary home cook by providing hundreds of recipes and menus and by encouraging the reader to see cooking in context and, most importantly, to acquire a real understanding. Coverage includes kitchen basics, children's food, everyday cooking, weekend lunch and the last minute dinner party.

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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," 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

Review:

`A culinary classic by the ever-luscious and inspiring Nigella' --Independent on Sunday

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0701165766
• ISBN 13: 9780701165765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544