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How To Eat

The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (Nigella Collection)
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In How To Eat, Nigella Lawson offers a collection of recipes and culinary wisdom aimed at making cooking approachable and enjoyable. The book is a delightful guide, combining detailed instructions with personal insights on food, focusing on the pleasure and satisfaction of everyday cooking. This culinary classic enhances the reader's kitchen skills while celebrating the joy of eating.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate insightful, evocative writing about food that combines both nurturing daily recipes and the philosophy of home cooking. With a warm and engaging tone, it invites you to rediscover the joy of food in everyday life, emphasising simplicity, comfort, and the sensory pleasures of eating.

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How To Eat

With witty food writing, easy recipes, basic cooking tips and a hardback design, this book covers: Basics - from easy bread recipes and basic roast chicken to sauce ingredients and seasonal foods; Fast food - easy recipes and quick meal ideas, and Weekend lunch - Saturday and Sunday lunch menus.

The classic cookbook that will help you rediscover the joys of eating well.

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The classic cookbook that will help you rediscover the joys of eating well.

Rediscover Nigella's classic food bible this Christmas.

Cooking is not just about joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next. In cooking, as in writing, you must please yourself to please others.

Hailed by chefs, reviewers, cookery writers and millions of home cooks worldwide as one of the best cookery books ever written, How To Eat is more than just an imaginative collection of over 350 delicious, simple recipes. Combining Nigella's down-to-earth, practical cookery advice with a passion for food and a friendly, chatty style, you will need two copies of this glorious classic – one for the kitchen, one for the bedside table.

This is Nigel Slater's all-time favourite cookbook: If I could only keep one cookbook, this would be it. How To Eat suits the way I cook. It is as if Nigella is sitting on a stool next to me in the kitchen as I'm cooking ... With every page you know she loves this stuff, and she wants you to love it too. It's a very, very special book for me. My own copy is falling apart.

With gloriously witty food writing, easy recipes, basic cooking tips 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.

Basics - from easy bread recipes and basic roast chicken to sauce ingredients and seasonal foods

Cooking in advance - slow cooking, marinades and stress-free, easy recipes

One and two - cooking for one and meals for two people, from the practical to the romantic

Fast food - easy recipes and quick meal ideas

Weekend lunch - Saturday and Sunday lunch menus, for entertaining friends and family meals

Dinner - complete dinner menus for any occasion, from an elegant dinner party to a simple supper

Low Fat - healthy recipes and low-fat meals that still burst with flavour

Feeding babies and small children - weaning recipes, easy family meals and dishes to tempt that fussy eater

Nigella Collection - a vibrant new look for Nigella's classic cookery books.

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How to Eat by Nigella Lawson is highly praised for its influence and lasting impact on British cooking. Celebrated by notable food writers like Ruth Rogers, Nigel Slater, and Yotam Ottolenghi, it is regarded as a staple and a kitchen bible that offers both culinary guidance and celebration of food. The book is noted for its witty, confiding manner, making it a classic that appeals to both novice and experienced cooks.

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ISBN: 9780701189181

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 June 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Chatto & Windus

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 40.0mm

Width: 196.0mm

Height: 253.0mm

Weight: 1483g

Pages: 544

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About the Author

'I love Nigella Lawson's writing and I love her recipes' - Delia Smith 'There's an intelligence to the way she writes and she expects a certain intelligence of her readers as well' - Nigel Slater "I am unapologetic about being a home cook rather than a chef. Real cooking, the sort that goes on in homes, does not have to be tricksy or difficult. A dish of chicken poached with leeks and carrots definitely isn't fancy. But it tastes good, and feels essentially nourishing, to both body and soul, to cook and eat. I want you to feel that I'm there with you, in the kitchen, as you cook. My books are the conversations we might be having." Nigella Lawson has written nine bestselling cookery books, including the classics How To Eat and How to Be A Domestic Goddess - the book that launched a thousand cupcakes. These books, her TV series and her Quick Collection apps, have made her a household name around the world. In 2014 she was voted Best Food Personality at the Observer Food Monthly Awards. www.nigella.com @Nigella_Lawson 'Her prose is as nourishing as her recipes' - Salman Rushdie, Observer 'Miss Lawson is the Thinking Person's Cook. She tells stories, she explains why things must be the way she says they must be... enlightenment and sensual pleasure' - Jeanette Winterson, The Times

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