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How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food [Hardcover]

Nigella Lawson (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)

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Release Date: Sep 10 2002
"[Nigella] brings you into her life and tells you how she thinks about food, how meals come together in her head . . . and how she cooks for family and friends. . . . A breakthrough . . . with hundreds of appealing and accessible recipes."
–Amanda Hesser, The New York Times

"Nigella Lawson serves up irony and sensuality with her comforting recipes . . . the Queen of Come-On Cooking."
–Los Angeles Times

"A chatty, sometimes cheeky, celebration of home-cooked meals."
–USA Today

"Nigella Lawson is, whisks down, Britain’s funniest and sexiest food writer, a raconteur who is delicious whether detailing every step on the way towards a heavenly roast chicken and root vegetable couscous or explaining why ‘cooking is not just about joining the dots’."
–Richard Story, Vogue magazine

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"Cooking is not about just joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next," says British food writer Nigella Lawson. "It's about developing an understanding of food, a sense of assurance in the kitchen, about the simple desire to make yourself something to eat." Lawson is not a chef, but "an eater." She writes as if she's conversing with you while beating eggs or mincing garlic in your kitchen. She explains how to make the basics, such as roast chicken, soup stock, various sauces, cake, and ice cream. She teaches you to cook more esoteric dishes, such as grouse, white truffles (mushrooms, not chocolate), and "ham in Coca-Cola." She gives advice for entertaining over the holidays, quick cooking ("the real way to make life easier for yourself: cooking in advance"), cooking for yourself ("you don't have to belong to the drearily narcissistic learn-to-love-yourself school of thought to grasp that it might be a good thing to consider yourself worth cooking for"), and weekend lunches for six to eight people. Don't expect any concessions to health recommendations in the recipes here--Lawson makes liberal and unapologetic use of egg yolks, cream, and butter. There are plenty of recipes, but the best parts of How to Eat are the well-crafted tidbits of wisdom, such as the following:

  • "Cook in advance and, if the worse comes to the worst, you can ditch it. No one but you will know that it tasted disgusting, or failed to set, or curdled or whatever."

  • On the proper English trifle: "When I say proper I mean proper: lots of sponge, lots of jam, lots of custard and lots of cream. This is not a timid construction ... you don't want to end up with a trifle so upmarket it's inappropriately, posturingly elegant. A degree of vulgarity is requisite."

  • "Too many people cook only when they're giving a dinner party. And it's very hard to go from zero to a hundred miles an hour. How can you learn to feel at ease around food, relaxed about cooking, if every time you go into the kitchen it's to cook at competition level?"

--Joan Price --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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"Her prose is as nourishing as her recipes — it should please mere readers, serious cooks and happy omnivores."
—Salman Rushdie

"I love Nigella Lawson's writing and I love her recipes."
—Delia Smith

"One of the best and most influential of British food writers — bound to become a staple cookbook for a whole generation."
—Ruth Rogers, The River Cafe Cook Book

"Cerebral and scintillating advice — peppered with wit."
—Sunday Times

"A gloriously sensual wander through the possibilities of food. The recipes read more like seduction than instruction."
—Independent --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Pleasure Oct 31 2002
By - Kasia S.
Format:Hardcover
Before i cooked anything from this cookbook, i was fascinated that it reads more like a lifestyle manual than a typical cookbook. Reading it i could almost hear Nigella saying the words in my head.
The recipies are fun and well thought of, her Macaronie and Cheese is fabulous, and soo easy! I enjoy laying around the house, sipping tea and reading between the recipies, because that girl has a talent for words. I love this book, she did a great job, as usual.
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4.0 out of 5 stars No pictures!!!!!! Oct 29 2009
By Lewis Cruise
Format:Hardcover
I like Nigella Lawson and love her TV show but if you need pictures to see the results of the recipes, please choose another cookbook of hers because this one has none! Her writting style his fun, but this book is more like a novel including recipes.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent advice, great food. Nigella is cool! Oct 18 2002
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Please let me say first off that I adore Nigella. She is like the cool sister you never had. She offers up recipes for just about anything you would ever want to cook, as well as her opinions in a certain way that makes me look to her a bit like one would a mentor. It's because she knows a lot about food, and has a great deal of life experience, from travelling and working as a restaurant reviewer, to share. For example, she's firm in her belief that a salad should be green or red. Choose. Either make it with lettuces or make a beautiful tomato salad -- better yet, set the ripe tomatoes in the center of the table with a knife, and let your guest have at it. It's something I'd never thought about before, and now that I have, I agree.
I consult this book for inspiration, comfort, advice, and sometimes just to fantasize about a proper British Sunday meal or some other menu. The book is interesting and fun to read, and does inspire confidence. My latest success related to this book came after consulting it for my four-year-old's birthday party. The crowning jewel was a brilliant-green Jurassic cake laden with miniature plastic toy dinosaurs and a palm tree -- it was a huge hit. (Cheese biscuit "W"s too.) I appreciate how Nigella stresses that her recipes and suggestions are meant to serve as guidelines, not rules written in stone. In fact, some of the recipes I would change and have, tweaking and improving upon them for my tastes. It's more about the approach to food and eating. Nigella is smart, smart, smart, and truly a breath of fresh air.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A little rougher than expected
Arrived promptly but I had to wipe it down as it was quite grimy. Other than the dirty worn cover a good product.
Published 2 months ago by Avid reader
5.0 out of 5 stars A groovy new take on classic kitchen tricks!
Ms. Lawson's seductive nature transfers beautifully to the page in this unusual, yet utilitarian cookbook. Classic, homey dishes are given a new 21st. Read more
Published on Jan 12 2004 by Kenneth McDaniel
5.0 out of 5 stars A Culinary Coup
How to Eat is what a cookbook should be, just like Nigella Lawson's cooking show redefines all cooking shows. Read more
Published on Oct 14 2002
5.0 out of 5 stars Both fun to read and cook from
An excellent cookbook - but to use the word "cookbook" to describe it is almost an injustice because it is so much more. Read more
Published on Sep 24 2002 by "jj6407"
5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book.
This author makes cooking comfortable. Her book explains things in a very simplistic and pleasant manner. Her approach gives the reader a sense of calm. Read more
Published on Sep 13 2002
1.0 out of 5 stars The Domestic Goddess and her cooking
Nigela Lawson is a phenomena. She is a gorgous forty year old woman who is, perhaps intelligent is a bit strong, but she radiates self confidence and personality. Read more
Published on Aug 27 2002 by Tom Munro
5.0 out of 5 stars Great cookbook for people who like to cook and entertain
This is a great book. I love watching her TV show and am always looking for new ideas and parties to throw with new foods. Read more
Published on Aug 12 2002 by Amanda Moss
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant !
I bought this book (as well as How to be a domestic goddess) after watching Nigella Bites because I really liked her informal style and the fact that she could throw together such... Read more
Published on July 31 2002
5.0 out of 5 stars She brings the sensual art of cooking and eating to life....
Nigella Lawson is addictive, which is a good thing. This is a book that is long needed because I think (especially Americans) that most people have forgotten what cooking and... Read more
Published on July 23 2002 by Beth DeRoos
5.0 out of 5 stars buy it now!!!!
Okay. So I had heard of Nigella Lawson and had been meaning to buy a cookbook or two of hers, especially Domestic Goddess. Read more
Published on Jun 5 2002 by Kasey M. Moctezuma
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