Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson details menus and recipes for all types of holidays in her cookbook, Feast: Food to Celebrate Life
. Lawson details classic dishes, like roast turkey for Thanksgiving, but gets creative with additions like Gingerbread Stuffing and Allspice Gravy. The "Kitchen Feasts" chapter makes every day a celebration with menus for a Scandi Supper for Six, The Ultimate English Sunday Lunch for Eight to Ten and Sunday Lunch After the Saturday Night Before. Seder supper ideas include Sephardi Roast Lamb, The Ashkenazi Alternative and Spinach with Pinenuts and Sultanas. Feast also includes everything you need to throw a creepy Halloween party from Slime Soup to Blood and Guts Potatoes and Ghoul Graveyard Cake. PROS:
- Lots of creative meal ideas for just about every holiday as well as casual celebrations.
- Each holiday has a forward by the author talking about her personal experiences as well as the cultural significance of the holiday.
- Although the extensive index is some help, finding recipes can be difficult unless you stick to Nigella's menus precisely as all recipes as classified by holiday and not by ingredients or type of dish. There are seven soup recipes, for instance, that are scattered throughout the book.
- Very little advice or explanation for novice cooks.
- Some of the cake recipes are not accurate, possibly problems in the translation from British English.
- Thanksgiving and Christmas
- New Year
- Meatless Feasts
- Valentine's Day
- Easter
- Passover
- Breakfast
- Kitchen Feasts
- Kiddie Feast
- Cut-Out Cookies
- Chocolate Cake Hall of Fame
- A Georgian Feast
- EID
- Ultimate Feasts
- Halloween
- Rosh Hashanah
- A Venetian Feast
- Festival of Lights
- Party Time
- Midnight Feast
- Wedding Feast
- Funeral Feast
BONUS SECTIONS:
- Before You Use This Book
- Stockists
Date Published: 2004
Number of Pages: 480
Author: Nigella Lawson
Number of Pages: 480
Author: Nigella Lawson
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 978-1401301361
Amazon Consumer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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