Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home

Kitchen tells the story of the life of the kitchen, through the food we eat now and the way we live, in the most important room of the house. The expansive narrative and the rich feast of recipes make this a natural successor to Nigellas classic first book, a kind of How to Eat everyday for the twen [...]
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Kitchen tells the story of the life of the kitchen, through the food we eat now and the way we live, in the most important room of the house. The expansive narrative and the rich feast of recipes make this a natural successor to Nigellas classic first book, a kind of How to Eat everyday for the twenty-first century, with a wealth of photographs from the instructive to the glorious a big, compendious, comfortable, informative and engaging book, full of the food we love to eat with our families and friends, whether Express-style and exotic easy during the week or more leisurely and luxuriatingly (in the spirit of How to Be a Domestic Goddess and Feast) at weekends and for special occasions.

But real food, real cooking is often about leftovers, too, about whats in the kitchen at any given time, so here one recipe can lead to another from ham hock to pea soup, from Greek chicken to Chinatown salad. This isnt just about being thrifty though hating waste is an essential part of being a cook but about demonstrating how recipes come about, and giving new inspiration on how to make last-minute, no-shop cooking a real possibility in everyday life.

As well as offering the reader a mouthwatering array of new recipes, both comforting and exciting - from clams with chorizo to Guinness gingerbread, from Asian braised beef to flourless chocolate lime cake - Nigella rounds up her Kitchen Kit Must-Haves (and, just as importantly, tells us what equipment we dont need), highlights individual ingredients whether basic essentials or modern-day life-savers and gives practical advice on making the kitchen work for us day to day. But above all, she reminds the reader not only how much pleasure there is to be had in food, but also in reclaiming the traditional rhythms of the kitchen, as she cooks to the beat of the heart of the home, creating simple recipes to make life less complicated.