Lawson - Feast

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Published by Chatto & Windus 2014
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Copyright 2004 Nigella Lawson
Photographs copyright James Merrell 2004

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First published in Great Britain in 2004 by Chatto & Windus

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Index: Vicki Robinson

A feast for the eyes and the senses, Feast is a must for every kitchen, in the tradition of Nigellas classic How to Eat. Whether youre hosting Christmas dinner, planning a wedding or having a childrens party, youll find a deliciously simple recipe for any occasion.

With warm and witty food writing, clear recipes and ingredients lists 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.

Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey and ham, mince pies and Christmas cake ... and everything in between
New Year indulgent dinner menus for friends and family
Meatless feasts mouthwatering vegetarian recipes that everyone will love
Valentines day romantic dinner ideas for two
Easter slow-cooked lamb, hot cross buns and indulgent baking
Passover Seder night suppers and feasts
Breakfast something delicious for everyone, from how to boil eggs to morning muffins
Kitchen feasts everyday celebrations: suppers for friends and family meals
Kiddie feast delicious and healthy recipes for kids
Chocolate cake hall of fame a chocolate cake recipe for every occasion
Eid a fast-breaking curry banquet of Mughlai chicken curry, pheasant and lamb
Breakfast something delicious for everyone, from how to boil eggs to morning muffins
Ultimate feasts roast chicken, homemade burgers, steak, apple pie and other home comforts
Halloween party food and spooky treats
Rosh Hashana food for sharing to celebrate the Jewish New Year
A Venetian feast glorious Italian recipes for the ultimate banquet
Festival of lights indulgent baking recipes for a happy Hannukah
Partytime party food ideas that go beyond the sausage roll
Midnight feast deliciously easy recipes to satisfy those late-night cravings, from carbonara to alcoholic hot chocolate
Wedding feast wedding ideas for the perfect banquet

I love Nigella Lawsons writing and I love her recipes Delia Smith

Theres 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 isnt fancy. But it tastes good, and feels essentially nourishing, to both body and soul, to cook and eat.

I want you to feel that Im 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 2013 she was one of the Observer Food Monthlys ten Chefs of the Decade.

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Her prose is as nourishing as her recipes Salman Rushdie, Observer

Miss Lawson is the Thinking Persons 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

FEAST

THE REAL SUCCESSOR TO HOW TO EAT ... JUST AS ENTERTAINING AND DIVULGENT AND IT WORKS TOO, BOTH AS A PRACTICAL MANUAL AND AN ENGROSSING READ

EVENING STANDARD

C OOKING HAS many functions, and only one of them is about feeding people. When we go into a kitchen, indeed when we even just think about going into a kitchen, we are both creating and responding to an idea we hold about ourselves, about what kind of person we are or wish to be. How we eat and what we eat lies at the heart of who we are as individuals, families, communities.

Not that feeding people or, indeed, ourselves is a minor part of the exercise. The thing about cooking is that although it can occupy the realm of metaphor, and is rich in meanings that have nothing to do with the culinary world, it is always a practical venture, and central to that is our basic need for sustenance to keep us alive. Anyone who has ever seen a newborn baby knows that the primal instinct is to feed, and that stays with us. For a baby, food and intimacy are inextricably linked and although this is demonstrated less baldly as we get older, that connection never goes away.

As cooking becomes less and less an everyday activity, there are those tend to idealize it, and the cook is vaunted as the nurturer, the provider of good things and the person who gives an essential embrace. All thats true, but the shortcomings of the food-as-love brigade are not that too much emphasis is put on food, but not enough. Food isnt just love, food encompasses everything: it may be only a part of life but in an important way it underpins the whole of it. Basic to the whole thing of being human is that we use food to mark occasions that are important to us in life.