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 enlarge | Author: Nigella Lawson
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Category: Book
List Price: £18.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 2371
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.1
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 0701169117
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780701169114
ASIN: 0701169117
Publication Date: September 2, 1999
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 This appears to be a minority view July 10, 2007
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book is now gathering dust in my garage. This seems to be a minority view, but this book failed to inspire me. I suppose that if you are prepared to read this book as a novel from cover to cover it may work, but if you don't, then its difficult to find what you want. I tried to use the book as a check on other recipes, but I tended not to trust her version and the tone of the writing can become very tedious.
 Ranks in my top ten all-time cookbooks! April 26, 2006
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
I've had this book for about four years now. I had browsed through it a couple of times in bookshops but decided against it because it didn't have any pictures. It was only after I bought and loved Domestic Goddess that I decided to give this a try. It's fantastic! I have used this book time and time again. I think I counted about thirty recipes that I've tried and enjoyed, which is more than I have used any other book in my collection. What is more, I have more success with Nigella's recipes than almost any other recipe book writer; she's very reliable. I highly recommend this (and Domestic Goddess).
Very highly recommended June 6, 2005
45 out of 46 found this review helpful
As someone who wants to be more than a dabbler in cooking, I have to say that this book is absolutely superb. The recipes clearly walk you through the processes and are written in such a way as to inspire confidence in one's abilities rather than terror at one's perceived inadequacies. Even better is the fact that you can actually sit down and take pleasure in simply reading through. It serves to put you at your ease, and - certainly in my opinion - the warm anecdotes, stories and suggestions for cullinary sourcing are a much better use of space than pictures of the results of every recipe. I find that pictures engender an unrealistic expectation - certainly nothing that I have prepared ever looks as good as the picture on the pages of the recipe book, hardly surprising when they are usually created by professional chefs and photographed by professional photographers, both of whose jobs are to make the subject as artistic and perfect as possible. You end up feeling disappointed, which does little to assist in your appreciation of the food. This book avoids all that in favour of reassuring you that one's first pancake or blini is invariably a disaster, but once the first is out of the way, it gets better.IIf you are looking for an invaluable kitchen companion, then this would be my first recommendation. Read it cover to cover, don't just flick through for the recipes, you miss so much that way. There's simple, everyday suggestions scattered throughout what some seem to think of as filler text.
My desert-island choice May 6, 2005
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
This book is the most useful book I have in my collection. Everybody can use it - if you are single, if you are dieting, if you have small kids, if you are having a dinner party.... Nigella has suggestions for what to cook!
Read it and learn a lot about methods, measurements, indgredients - use the recipes as they are or be inspired to invent your own recipe - and the book is perfect for bedtime-reading!
In a few words - this book has everything!
Invaluable April 1, 2005
24 out of 25 found this review helpful
This book has almost replaced my Delia Smith's Complete cookery course, which I used to use for everything - rice, yorkshire puds, pancakes etc. It covers all the basics - how to cook veg, meat, rice, cakes etc and then progresses on to recipes, organized in helpful chapters, such as 'Fast food', 'Cooking for 1 or 2', 'Cooking for babies' - it has lots of new and interesting takes on older recipes - beef stew with prunes (delicious - far better than you can ever imagine), pea risotto...
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