Feast: Food That Celebrates Life - Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson is the ultimate cooking goddess. She's someone who I feel genuinely delights in food and her recipes and it's refreshing to see that she's not one of these size 0 girls who claim to 'love food' but actually eat half a lettuce leaf a day. Cover ***** The book features a full sized picture of Nigella laughing as she kneeds some sort of dough, with 'FEAST' in bright red capital letters across with the caption 'Food that celebrates life'. The binding is also bright red, suggesting decadence, as the title also implies. On opening the book you are greated with a huge double spread of cherries, suggesting divulgent indulgence and ...  Read the complete review

Infamous for her full-fat recipes, sexual inuendos and enjoying her food, Nigella is one of the most popular female chefs (perhaps second to the more housewifely, respectable Delia Smith) and rightly so. Her recipes are technically good, taste brilliant and are written with passion. *Look and layout* The front cover of the new edition which I own - with Nigella laughing on the front and red text - is much more attractive, appealing and (I think) relevant to the text than the original image of a large cooking pot with the word Feast ingrained in it. While the latter gives me the impression of mass-catering, school dinners, stews and Oliver Twist, the new ...  Read the complete review

Over the years I have accumulated numerous cookery books, but to be honest most of them have never been used.....I just don't have the time to make petit fours, or to need a book on Egyptian cooking.....although I suppose if I ever have an Egyptian Themed party, I might be grateful...... So a couple of years ago, I decided to sell off those cook books that were not going to do anything more than looking nice on my worktop, and to treat myself to a book that would actually have practical, yummy recipes in that I would USE! So, after much perusing the shelves in the bookshop, I settled on Nigella Lawson's "Feast" book. A thick ...  Read the complete review

Nigella Lawson "Feast - Food that Celebrates Life" This book was a Christmas present to me a few years ago - is the old mans' way of trying to tell me something? No, honestly, I was delighted, as I do love Ms Lawson's TV programmes and also her writing style. For example, one of the chapters is entitled "Cooking for the one you love" and includes recipes such as "Quivering with passion jellies", "schmalzy chicken" and "Come back to my cave finger-lickin' ribs" Containing 22 main chapters in all, this huge heavy book covers every culinary event you could ever be called upon to cater for, ...  Read the complete review

This was the first Nigella book I ever got, I got it for Christmas a few years ago and from opening the pages I was hooked. This is a beautiful story, as well as a wonderful recipe book. Nigella takes the main feasts and celebrations that you might come across in a year and cooks up a storm for each one. Within most of the sections (except the chocolate cake hall of fame!) she gives you a menu for varying numbers and talks about why the foods work together. Each section contains plenty of different recipes and the book is full of inspiration for everyone and everything. When I read the book I feel like I want to start cooking there and ...  Read the complete review