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How to Eat: the pleasures and principles of good food

Nigella Lawson
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If I could keep only one cookbook, this would be it. There’s an intelligence to the way she writes, and she expects a certain intelligence of her readers as well. It’s quite clearly written by someone who adores food. And she wants you to love it too.