Feast: Food to Celebrate Life

I love Nigella Lawson so much. She has the unique gift among cookbook authors, of making me want to eat whatever she has just described. And she describes it in such detail that you can almost taste it in advance. I probably don't cook enough sensible food, but love an Occasion, where I can make something new and snazzy and really knock everyone's socks off - so this may be the perfect cookbook for me. Lots of ideas along those lines. Makes me want to celebrate everyone's holidays, so that I can try everything out. And why shouldn't we celebrate Easter and Rosh Hashanah? Better to be inclusive than exclusive (although having just watched the BBC Middlemarch miniseries, I wonder if that isn't the Mr. Brooke in me). ;) But I prefer to show more think of it as Nigella Lawson's talent for convincing me to broaden my culinary horizons! show less

I have cooked almost all of the recipes from this book, or so it seems. It's just glorious and has foods for every ocassion. The Children's chapter is so very handy, and there are a lot of everyday meals sprinkled througout the book, as well as grand Feasts. The Georgian Feasts chapter is one of my favourites, but then, I don't want to play favourites as I can't think of a chapter I haven't utilised. Salads, pastas, bread and OH the Chocolate Cake Hall of Fame! I've never met a Nigella cookbook that didn't make me happy, but (to date) Feast could be the top of the top!

I am so fond of this book. I have cooked only a few recipies from it thus far (more to come, certainly) which have been lovely.

More than that though I love it's tone and unusual organization. There is (thank heaven) an index for those seraching for a particular thing. The book is organized around the occasions for Feasts from the obvious - Christmas and birthdays - to the less obvious but equally important - funerals and kitchen dinners with friends.

This one has spent time both in my kitchen and on my bedside table and cookbooks which are welcome in both places are my favourites.

I love this book. Her recipes can be read as essays. Great bedtime reading, really!

Probably my second favourite Nigella Lawson cookbook (after [b:How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking|39542|How to Be a Domestic Goddess Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking|Nigella Lawson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169298594s/39542.jpg|39249]. There's a recipe here for almost every occasion. Some of the recipes in this book I've used so often that I know them off by heart and could probably do them in my sleep. (Chocolate Honey Cake, I'm talking about you!)

A wonderful book that takes beautiful and elegant holiday recipes and explains them in the same comfortable and loving language as the non-so-lowly freshly-ground sirloin hamburger. Spanning recipes for one to groups of 20, this book includes fun methods and real-world shortcuts for creating beautiful food presentations.

A must-have for people who love food and the all holidays built around them, this book comprises everything Martha Stewart strives for.

I don't think this book is as good as How to Eat or How to be a Domestic Goddess. That said, I had very high expectations. I don't use it as much as the others, but it is lovely to look at, and to delve into. I love the chapter on chocolate.