Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3419 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-07
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Time Out
"A great sense of place and occasion in a recipe book... Nigella is a very talented and evocative food writer."

Tom Norrington-Davies, Guardian
Feast, like so much of Lawson's work, is a voluptuous and delicious piece of food writing

Synopsis
The real successor to Nigella Lawson's classic, "How to Eat", a volume that every right-thinking person cherishes and consults regularly..."Feast" [is] just as entertaining and divulgent - and it works too, both as a practical manual and an engrossing read.' - "Evening Standard". '"Feast" is a voluptuous and delicious piece of food writing.' - "Guardian". 'This is the kind of food we can dream of cooking.' - "Observer". A feast for the eyes and the senses and now available in a handsome paperback edition, "Feast" is a must for every kitchen. In the style and tradition of Nigella's classic "How to Eat", it applies those same 'Pleasures and Principles of Good Food' to celebrations from feast days to everyday happiness. Essentially about families and food, about public holidays and private passions, about how to celebrate the small pleasures, as well as the big occasions, it includes everything from Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Eid, to Passover and Easter; from Meatless Feasts to Midnight Feasts, from weddings to funerals, from kitchen feasts to kids' favourites, from Party-time to the ultimate Chocolate Cake Hall of Fame.

Heartwarming, passionate, informed, refreshingly uncomplicated and full of ideas, "Feast" is destined to become a classic like "How to Eat". Written with the same enjoyment, sensuality and practical awareness, and packed with over 300 recipes and more than 200 photos, "Feast" proclaims Nigella's love of life and great food to celebrate it with.

Customer Reviews

Astoundingly tantalising and scrumptious!!
As a cookery book sceptic this book has transformed by attitude towards celebrity chefs. This book has a personal and `down to earth' nature which is really quite endearing. Engaging snapshots and quirky notes make this not only a collection of recipes but an equally enjoyable read. It has never stayed on the shelf long; I constantly find myself delving into its stunning pages which burst with inspiration and wisdom.
Selecting a favourite recipe would not do justice to the many other favourites I would have to leave out; you do really just have to buy it!

Some recipes admittedly take a lot of expensive ingredients but there is just no compromise for the quality flavours which these recipes produce. The use of ingredients however is not unnecessarily extravagant; I do not have a particularly well stocked kitchen and I find that I usually have most of the ingredients.

I would recommend this book; it is a beautiful collection of recipes which have been gathered with care and aptitude. It would make a lovely and appropriate present because of the way it focuses on various celebration foods. This book I'm sure will be a classic, and one which many family favourites will derive from....

'Feast' indeed a celebration of life.
Life is messy - and to enjoy good food improves things immeasurably. `Feast' is indeed a celebration of life. It seems strange that at times Lawson has been accused of excess for the generosity of her portion sizes, preferences for quality and interesting variation - and indeed her very person. In a world where the gap between starvation and gluttony - usually cheap, synthetic foodstuff - becomes the norm `Feast' opens up a world in which food is homemade, heartfelt and real - a world in which (once we discard our hang-ups and neurosis) a natural balance breaks out - which turns out to be healthier in a much truer sense. As a food writer Nigella Lawson is generous. What could be more pleasurable?

`Feast' represents generosity and sharing, things we witness in the quality of ingredients, her quantities and serving sizes but none so much as in the books narrative. We are amply provided for with a `little something to read' between sessions in the kitchen. Hearty, eloquent, cheering - almost self effacing at times - but above all voluptuous (some may consider verbose but the rest of us find ourselves able to devour every word with alarming ease.)

The recipes contained in this book are adaptable and successful. This reader labours under the temporary encumbrance of a dreadful kitchen but even here Lawson's recipes prove triumphant!

No veg!
Good for cakes and deserts but on the main course it seems to lack something. Where are all the veg?