I feel conflicted with this, while I worship the altar of Lawson and have cooked, and still do, many of her recipes over the years this one was not a hit with me. Following through the book, I loved the pleasures section which included yummy indulgences and recipes for simple breads.

I like cooking and over many decades, I’ve tried to understand ingredients and food from numerous different cultures. joyous, gorgeous, glorious, lavish, spectacular, expansive, celebratory, unrestrained, blissful, spirit-lifting.Although I occasionally watched Nigella's cookery programmes, this was the first book (actually e-book) of hers I'd bought. I prefer the format of previous cookbooks where she gives a page or so of thoughts about a recipe and then moves on. If you’re not fussy about food like I am, reading it really gets you excited about cooking and eating and all the joy you can get from food. No, it’s not your regular recipe/cookery book of recipe, photo, recipe , photo repeat which has a place and we all enjoy them.

Read it for the careful pushback against what Instagram has done to eating; read it for luxurious ideas on how to treat yourself (it's not for nothing that Lawson says making a creme caramel for one person is ridiculous—and then proceeds to tell you how); read it for a gleeful reminder of how delicious and wonderful food and eating can be. Páčilo sa mi, že ju nezaujíma, či si dá dve alebo štyri porcie a už vonkoncom, že si dáva karbokombo v podobe zemiakov a cestovín. A recipe can be many things: a practical document; a piece of social history; an anthropological record; a family legacy; an autobiographical statement; even a literary exercise. Two things: in terms of food writing, this cookbook reminds me most of her very first cookbook How to Eat, published in 1998. Oh right, for Nigella to be the one guiding your hand as you make such an indulgent and warming dish.Dedicated chapters include ‘A is for Anchovy’ (a celebration of the bacon of the sea), ‘Rhubarb’, a loving defence of ‘Brown Food’, a suitably expansive chapter devoted to family dinners, plus inspiration for vegan feasts, solo suppers and new ideas for Christmas.