If you've been cooking with Nigella over the years her prose is one of the joys, but I don't know what it is with this particular volume, it just wasn't there for me. And so I protect fiercely the deep enjoyment I get from food, and want so fervently for others to share it, too.

If you’re not fussy about food like I am, reading it really gets you excited about cooking and eating and all the joy you can get from food. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

From the back cover of my copy (also the closing paragraph to the INTRODUCTION) alongside the only photo of Nigella:📝 ‘Food, for me, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it, reflect deeply on it, learn from it; it provides comfort, inspiration, meaning and beauty as well as sustenance and structure. I also suspect she has a fantastic sense of humour, and is the first to laugh at herself (or at least, her TV self), but that the general public has a hard time letting her show that (just look at how the internet imploded over her pronunciation of 'microwave'). joyous, gorgeous, glorious, lavish, spectacular, expansive, celebratory, unrestrained, blissful, spirit-lifting. There is plenty of culture and inheritance in this book, but it is also notable for its highly flavoured and culturally diverse ingredients. I don't know that I've read any of Nigella Lawson's cookbooks before, so I didn't have any expectations.

Most of her recipes are created for 4 people, but she offers changes for many to cook them easily for 2 or even 1 instead. Cook, eat, repeat is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food, all written in Nigella’s engaging and insightful prose.That’s where Lawson’s personality and passion comes out the most, with her suggestions and substitutions, and it’s the most fascinating and fun parts of this book.