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HardCover. Pub Date: October 2000 Pages: 388 in Publisher: Chatto & Windus In the busy stressful life of the modern woman there could be more feelgood mileage from running up a tray of muffins or baking a cake than in almost the any other cooking. But we're so busy making efficient. 'modern' food. that we too easily forget. what Nigella demonstrates in th is mouthwatering and deliciously reassuring cookbook. that actually it 's not hard to make a cake. that the appreciation and satisfaction it ings are out of all proportion to the little effort involved. A domestic goddess has to maintain her cool when faced with pastry-but with Nigella's guidance even shortcrust pastry can be pretty pain-free. Here at last is the book which understands our anxieties. feeds our fantasies and puts cakes. pies. pastries. preserves. puddings. ead and biscuits back into today's kitchen and our l...
Amazon Review
Those who love comfort food have cause to be grateful for Nigella Lawson's book How to Be a Domestic Goddess. Cause, too, perhaps, to wonder that she isn't the size of a house, since baked comfort foods typically encompass large quantities of butter, cream, eggs, sugar, chocolate, nuts, cream cheese and all the other foodstuffs to which with dreary inevitability attaches the deadly word "sinful". But in Nigella Lawson's hands these dangerous, even feared, substances are transmuted alchemically into the healing balms of the goddess, who presides (perhaps a little ironically) over a harmonious kitchen realm.
The recipes are suitably divine, covering cakes, biscuits, pies, puddings, breads, with special sections on cooking for (and by) children and Christmas. Most are sweet, though there is a choice selection of savoury pies and puddings--Pizza Rustica, Steak and Kidney Pudding, Cornish Pasties. The sweet things range from the airy elegance of Pistachio Macaroons, through the luscious spiciness of Norwegian Cinnamon Buns, to the trailer-trashiness of Coca-Cola Cake. Nigella Lawson's poise never falters, whether she is discussing serving mulled wine with mince pies ("Don't fight it") or a strange passion-fruit liqueur required for one of her trifles ("the most divinely camp liqueur you could ever come across"). She plays a kind of game with her readers, insisting constantly on her greed, but really invoking our own. What a fascinating book: hints of obsessiveness revealed behind the beautifully projected personality of a laid-back voluptuary.--Robin Davidson
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