Megg’s Reviews > Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories – Nigella Lawson's Delicious Essays on Food, Family, and Life > Status Update

Libby. My return to the goddess writer of "sentences in your mouth."

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"But I will forgive you, as long as you obey me."

The difference between Nigella's books and vast amount of quickly produced cookbooks these days is the writing... She was a writer (and an educated one) first and then a cook. She describes her creations with the mastery of how words on the tongue can describe the tastes of eating that experience.

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"I know I might seem soupy when I say that I see every mealtime, every mouthful, as a celebration of life, but (with lamentable exceptions) I do, or I try to. It's such a waste otherwise."

"...while I am undoubtedly often extravagant when it comes to food, I am never wasteful."

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