false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170797557m/71974.jpg 71974 4 What is there to say about a new Nigel Slater book? Especially one called <I>Appetite</I>. It is exactly what it should be. This is the book he has been heading for all along. It is about food, to be sure, but it is also a statement of his personal philosophy, which seems to amount to this: that our appetites are founded in pleasure; and that we must interrogate those pleasures, and take them very seriously indeed, if we are to eat as well as we can. To eat well means to eat, and cook, pleasurably. So in <I>Appetite</I> Slater takes food, and cooking, back to where he believes it belongs, back to the realm of sensuous pleasure and comfort. Back to the sheer bliss, as he might say, of putting something warm, soft, and sticky in your mouth.<p>Very cleverly, he has built his book not around detailed recipes as such--that would be too specific for his purposes--but around the sort of thing that might pop into your head as something you would really like to eat. These are the kinds of food this generous and handsome book celebrates; foods that have a genuine part to play in people's lives. This is quintessential Nigel Slater: laid-back, not claiming any special privilege as a chef ("If I can do it, so can you," he remarks), and all wrapped up in that wonderful, lived-in, squashy prose that hits the spot every time. A feast of a book, from a man with no tricks or gimmicks, who is happily in touch with his own appetites and wants to put us in touch with ours. <I>--Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk</I> 1116580 2001 Appetite total:80|5:44|4:30|3:5|2:1|1:0| 80 357 125 14 5 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 17:48:21 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 17:55:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 08 06:44:37 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 11:24:53 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 06:44:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 19:03:52 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 19:17:49 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Mar 30 08:59:05 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 09:07:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Mar 29 13:32:20 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 08:14:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Feb 06 16:47:27 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 16:55:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 21:21:19 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 21:31:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 05:21:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 05:23:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 04 17:41:13 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 10 07:18:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Mon Jul 30 18:03:47 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 18:03:47 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 07 17:36:35 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 17:36:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 31 12:57:13 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 12:58:28 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue May 22 08:03:32 -0700 2007 Tue May 22 08:04:12 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Apr 30 02:03:21 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 02:04:02 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Nov 24 07:09:35 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 07:09:35 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Nov 20 03:24:40 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 03:24:40 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 05:45:55 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 05:45:55 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 16:57:52 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 16:57:52 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 01 09:53:19 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 09:53:19 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Oct 22 16:49:45 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 16:49:45 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=71974