Nigella Bites (Nigella Collection) - Hardcover

Lawson, Nigella

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701189150 ISBN 13: 9780701189150

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2015

Synopsis

Nigella Collection: a vibrant new look for Nigella’s classic cookery books.

‘Cooking isn’t performance art – or shouldn’t be. Make your food welcoming rather than fussy and remember that it’s not a test of your worth and acceptability: it’s just dinner, and can be easily delicious.’

Packed with fresh ideas and exciting new twists on old favourites, Nigella Lawson brings you mouthwatering but simple recipes to add flavour to your busy life – from quick family meals and easy suppers to dinner party menus and roast lunches.

With luscious photography, evocative food writing and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family.

All-Day Breakfast – recipes to start the day right, whatever time you get up!
Comfort Food – from chocolate fudge cake to mashed potato
TV Dinners – quick meals and simple snacks
Party Girl – cupcakes, barbecue chicken and much more to help you celebrate in style
Rainy Days – family meals to savour and share, and how to feel warm in the kitchen when it’s cold outside
Trashy – kitsch in the kitchen and fun food
Legacy – recipes from Nigella’s family
Suppertime – dinner party ideas that let you relax
Slow-Cook Weekend – the joys of slow roasting and languorous baking: roast pork, sticky toffee pudding and all the trimmings
Templefood – recipes to refresh and restore, and make you feel serenely smug

About this title

Review:

Her devotees will be relieved to learn that, in Nigella Bites, the goddess returns among us, her attributes unmodified: the cashmere twinsets, the hair, the postmodern penchant for trailer trash, the eerily intense gaze, the Kim Novak eyebrows, all are present in this lavishly illustrated accompaniment to the TV series. To these may now be added the Playboy-bunny T-shirt and the lilac pashmina worn recklessly and negligently at the barbecue. So much for the essentials, now what about the food?

The Nigella formula of fashion-flouting comfort food with knobs on is now pretty firmly established, so it will come as no surprise to find here American Pancakes with Wafer-Bacon and Maple Syrup, Chicken Soup with Kniedlach, Italian Sausages with Lentils, Whitebait or Chocolate Fudge Cake; yet there is room too for more sophisticated fare such as Thai Yellow Pumpkin and Seafood Curry, Bitter Orange Ice-Cream and Bagna Cauda. The chapter titles give as good an indication of the approach as one might want: they include All-Day Breakfast, Comfort Food, TV Dinners, Rainy Day and Trashy. Trashy (and one feels this chapter will in many ways give the most pleasure) offers a modified version of the now-notorious Ham in Coca-Cola from How to Eat, deep-fried Bounty bars in batter and the calorifically devastating Elvis Presley's Fried Peanut-Butter and Banana Sandwich.

This exemplifies the Lawson approach, teasing but serious, liberating too. It would be fair to say that there is probably nothing in this luscious and clever book that you wouldn't find a pleasure to cook and eat at home. --Robin Davidson

Review:

"Nigella Bites is a must-have for every viewer and all her fans. Some recipes are based on her popular Vogue columns, others are new and different, and all are characteristic of Nigella and the ethos of the TV series - uncomplicated, original, fresh, and perfect for the way we live today" (Mrs D-Daily (Blog))

"You can enjoy Nigella Bites in bed...or you can take it to the kitchen and be confident about turning out something seriously scrumptious " (Weekend Australian)

"It would be fair to say that there is probably nothing in this luscious and clever book that you wouldn't find a pleasure to cook and eat at home." (Robin Davidson)

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0701189150
• ISBN 13: 9780701189150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256