How To Eat

If I could only keep one cookbook, this would be it. How To Eat suits the way I cook. It is as if Nigella is sitting on a stool next to me in the kitchen as I’m cooking ... With every page you know she loves this stuff, and she wants you to love it too. It’s a very, very special book for me. My own copy is falling apart.

Nigel Slater

Nigella Lawson is one of the best and most influential of British food writers

Ruth Rogers, co-author of The River Café Cookbook

A classic of the genre

Irish Independent

The domestic bible for the millennium generation

Spectator

A masterclass in food writing – one glance shows how good she really is

Yotam Ottolenghi

I’m inspired by Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat… It’s about a lifestyle and an attitude

Kathryn Parsons, tech entrepreneur, Harper's Bazaar

[Nigella] brings you into her life and tells you how she thinks about food, how meals come together in her head...and how she cooks for family and friends... A breakthrough

New York Times

Nigella Lawson is, whisks down, Britain's funniest and sexiest food writer, a raconteur who is delicious whether detailing every step on the way towards a heavenly roast chicken and root vegetable couscous or explaining why 'cooking is not just about joining the dots'

Vogue

Her prose is as nourishing as her recipes

Salman Rushdie, Observer

Miss Lawson is the Thinking Person’s Cook. She tells stories, she explains why things must be the way she says they must be... enlightenment and sensual pleasure

Jeanette Winterson, The Times

I love Nigella Lawson’s writing and I love her recipes

Delia Smith

What sets her apart from every other food writer is her empathy with working women and her realism

The Times

How to Eat is suffused with the idea that eating a good meal – together, with another, or on your own – is healing and renewing, no matter how simple the meal, no matter how difficult the circumstances

Diana Henry, Sunday Telegraph

Two decades on, the task of trusting our own palates to tell us what to eat has become more complicated than ever… There has never been a better time to return to the sanity of this book and its call to come to our senses in the kitchen

Bee Wilsom, Guardian

Only one [cookbook] among my collection could be described as a true friend

Ellen E Jones, Evening Standard

This is a book to reach for when hastily organising a last-minute dinner with friends; contemplating a store-cupboard meal for one; trying to tempt a fussy toddler; or when planning a leisurely weekend lunch, when you have nothing to do but stir a pot… Nigella's back catalogue has steered us through many a social situation

SheerLuxe

The recipes are stories as much as instructions… while there are ingredients lists, the words run on like a well-ordered stream of consciousness

UK Press Syndication

This is a book to be read cover to cover, like a novel. Buy yourself two copies: one for reading and one for use in the kitchen

Constance Craig Smith, Daily Mail, **Books of the Year**