How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food
by Nigella Lawson, Arthur Boehm

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"If you could have just one food book this year, make it How to Eat." -Susan Low, Time Out (London)

The essential cooking and recipe book for people who love to eat.

"Cooking is not about just joining the dots . . . 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. And in cooking . . . you must please yourself to please others." And so Nigella Lawson begins How to Eat. Already a huge success in Britain, How to Eat is a joyous celebration of home-cooked food, simply prepared and presented. She demonstrates how everyone can explore and enjoy the world of food every day-whether it's fitting cooking into a busy schedule or improvising with whatever ingredients are on hand. With an easy, conversational style, she shares 350 simple recipes that range from lemon chicken to children's chocolate mousse.

Chapters include meals for one and two, low fat cooking, weekend dining, and cooking for babies and small children.

Nigella Lawson (London, UK), a former columnist for London's Evening Standard and the Times, is a columnist for Talk magazine, a freelance journalist for Vogue magazine, and a broadcaster for two British network television programs.

• "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

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