I can at the end of all this, however, recommend the black forest brownies and the spiced bulgur wheat. Food, for me, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it, reflect deeply on it, learn from it; it provides comfort, inspiration, meaning and beauty, as well as sustenance and structure. But these recipes are also about family, about the time and energy cooks spend making magic for those that they love, about heart and soul and putting your best on the plate for yourself and for those you care the most about. I enter into the exuberance, but a continuous diet (true of any stylistic author, including Wodehouse, Trollope, Dickens, Karon, and others) of Nigella drains the sparkplugs.

She has had two series of 'Nigella Bites' in 1999-2001, plus a 2001 Christmas special, and 'Forever Summer with Nigella' in 2002, both of which yielded accompanying recipe books. I appreciate all the info given at the start of recipes for how to adapt them to suit different dietary requirements, but there's a lot of these I'll never cook due to the large number of meaty dishes or just flavours that aren't my cup of tea (namely rhubarb and anchovies! Even though I might not make most of what is in here, I loved reading about her philosophy of food and its importance to ourselves and to the people around us. Cook, Eat, Repeat is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food. Cook, eat, repeat is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food, all written in Nigella’s engaging and insightful prose.I first came across pasta cooked in beetroot juice in Felicity Cloake’s wonderful ‘A-Z of Eating’ (she in turn had found it in an American food magazine) and I knew I had to make it.

Nigella študovala literatúru a jazyky na Oxforde a jej "lingvistické ja" je v tejto knihe značne cítiť. Nigella Lawson has written eleven bestselling cookery books including the classics How to Eat and How to Be a Domestic Goddess – the book that inspired a whole new generation of bakers.

For therapists it’s a story about rules are made and followed even when they are no longer necessary or beneficial. Vo food writingu sa totiž stále nájdu nové a nové spôsoby spôsoby, ako opísať podstatu varenia, jedla a jedenia.

And so I protect fiercely the deep enjoyment I get from food, and want so fervently for others to share it, too. Nigella mi ukázala, ako k jedlu pristupovať, ako počúvať rytmus kuchyne a ako sa postupne naučiť hovoriť týmto jazykom.

But since I don’t have that, I’m glad Nigella Lawson does and that she’s willing to share it with me through these recipes and essays. She starts off with a chapter devoted to the humble anchovy, an ingredient that is small yet mighty. Serves 8-10, although I still make this if there are fewer of us; leftovers are to be relished, or generously boxed up and given to people to take home.