Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1261 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-07
• Original language: English
• 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

From the Publisher
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 familiar rites of passage.

Customer Reviews

Lovely...lovely..
I love reading this cookbook. I love how the book has different ideas for different feasts. I made the jewelled cupcakes for christmas. They were really marvellous and looked just like the picture. Everyone who came home during Christmas loved them... they looked fantastic and tasted even better..

Feast your eyes!!
This book is amazing!! Not only are the recipes extremely easy and straightforward (you would expect nothing less from Nigella), but the background to each 'Feast' is interesting and well written.

In agreement with another reviewer, the chocolate cake section is fantastic!!

Beautifully presented and well worth the money - Buy This Book Now!!!

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....