Lawson - Nigella summer: easy cooking, easy eating

NIGELLA SUMMER

AS RELIABLY MOUTHWATERING AS EVER ... WITH IMAGES OF WARMTH AND MEDITERRANEAN CLIMES

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Text Nigella Lawson 2002
Photographs Petrina Tinslay 2002
Landscape photographs including endpapers and case Art Directors and Trip Photo Library

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First published in the United Kingdom in 2002 as Forever Summer by Chatto & Windus
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Design and Art Direction: Caz Hildebrand
Cookery Assistants: Hettie Potter with Angela Boggiano
Additional research: Skye Gyngell
Stylist: Helen Trent

NIGELLA COLLECTION

BY NIGELLA LAWSON

HOW TO EAT

THE PLEASURES AND PRINCIPLES OF GOOD FOOD

HOW TO BE A DOMESTIC GODDESS

BAKING AND THE ART OF COMFORT COOKING

NIGELLA BITES

NIGELLA SUMMER

EASY COOKING, EASY EATING

FEAST

FOOD THAT CELEBRATES LIFE

NIGELLA EXPRESS

GOOD FOOD FAST

NIGELLA CHRISTMAS

NIGELLA KITCHEN

RECIPES FROM THE HEART OF THE HOME

NIGELLISSIMA

INSTANT ITALIAN INSPIRATION

Summer food, even when eaten in deepest winter, contains within it the idea of simple cooking. But the best recipes are never blueprints, only ideas hungrily mooted. The ones in this book have come to me the way they always do, plundered from friends, from family, grown out of an idea of what might go with what. As the Australian food writer Maggie Beer has written, cooking is all about osmosis a mental note made about a flavour combination or a technique, a memory of a dish. Cooking is not just about applying heat, procedure, method, but about transformation of a more intimate kind; none of us cooks without bringing our own character to bear on the food in front of us. Just as the recipes that follow have been toyed with, changed, fiddled with to become my food, so I expect them to be remodelled in your own kitchen.

I have only one rule when I decide what to put in, what to leave out. However successful a kitchen experiment might seem to be, if I dont feel the urge to cook something again, and soon, I ditch it. The one-off spectacular is not my style, nor ever could be. And, if at any time Im still wondering if this or that particular recipe is worth keeping, I set myself a scene: a friend, a reader, a fellow-mother at the school gates, is coming up to me, telling me that tonight shes going to cook my..... If Im not filled with impatient, evangelical enthusiasm at the imagined exchange, if that recipe doesnt inspire that same, unwavering, bossy confidence, then out it goes. I want to write only about the food I love, and I want you to love it, too.

The sweetness of new potatoes, fresh peas, broad beans and the grassy herbalness of asparagus make you almost want to skip with summeriness.

Warm, witty and gloriously indulgent, this is the delectable summer classic from Nigella Lawson (Queen of the Kitchen Observer Food Monthly).

Full of irresistible summer recipes, Nigella Summer brings the warmth of a sunny afternoon into your kitchen, all year round. Create delicious family meals and delectable outdoor dinners with Italian recipes, Greek feasts, Moroccan roasts, Mauritian curries and a wide range of luxurious puddings and ice-creams.

With luscious photography, easy recipes, witty 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.

First course from simple soups and appetisers to pasta recipes and summery salads
Second course melt-in-the-mouth fish dishes, meat ideas from roasts to kebabs, chicken recipesand a wide range of side dishes and vegetables
Puddings indulgent chocolate desserts, pavlovas and cheesecakes, crumble, ice-cream and more ...
Drinks cocktail recipes for those lazy summer evenings

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. She is a judge and mentor on The Taste in the US and UK.

www.nigella.com
@Nigella_Lawson

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

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