Nigella Collection

Nigella’s Bestselling Cookbooks Served Up In A Delicious New Look

April 2014

Nigella Express

Good Food Fast, 2007

April 2014

How to be a Domestic Goddess

Baking and the Art of Comfort Food, 2000

June 2014

How to Eat

The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food, 1998

June 2014

Nigella Summer

Previously titled 'Forever Summer', 2002

Autumn 2014

Nigella Christmas

2008

2015

Nigella Bites

2001

2015

Nigellissima

2012

Nigella Express

2007

Real food for everyday homes, from easy family meals to effortless entertaining.

'No matter how much of a hurry I'm in, or how little time I have, I am never willing to sacrifice flavour: everything I eat has to be delicious.'

Nigella Lawson (‘Queen of the Kitchen’ – Observer Food Monthly) brings you deliciously quick recipe inspiration for your family and friends – from simple family meals and easy recipes for two to dinner party ideas and effortless entertaining.

Whether you’re cooking on a budget or planning a feast, Nigella Express makes shopping, cooking and – most importantly – eating a pleasure, not a pain. With over 100 easy meal ideas, from chicken recipes and pasta dishes to chocolate puddings and delicious cakes, you’ll never be short of inspiration, however busy your day might be.

With luscious photography, evocative food writing and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family.

Everyday Easy

Simple suppers

Workday Winners

Dinner ideas for friends

Retro Rapido

Classic recipes made simple

Get Up and Go

Breakfast food

Quick Quick Slow

Slow cooking or cooking in advance to save you time

Against the Clock

Instant meals with intense flavour

Instant Calmer

Healthy recipes to soothe your soul

Razzle Dazzle

Quick and easy party menus

Speedy Gonzales

Fast Mexican feasts

On the Run

Packed lunches and picnics

Hey Presto

Instant Italian meals

Holiday Snaps

Christmas and entertaining recipes

Storecupboard SOS

Larder, fridge and freezer standbys


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How to be a Domestic Goddess

2000

The classic book that launched a thousand cupcakes.

'This is for those days or evenings when you want to usher a little something out of the kitchen that makes you thrill at the sheer pleasure you’ve conjured up.'

The classic baking bible by Nigella Lawson (‘Queen of the Kitchen’ – Observer Food Monthly). This is the book that helped the world rediscover the joys of baking and kick-started the cupcake revolution, from cake shops around the country to The Great British Bake Off.

How To Be a Domestic Goddess is not about being a goddess, but about feeling like one. Here is the book that feeds our fantasies, understands our anxieties and puts cakes, pies, pastries, preserves, puddings, bread and biscuits back into our own kitchens.

With luscious photography, easy recipes, witty food writing and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family.

Cakes

From a simple Victoria Sponge to beautiful cupcakes

Biscuits

Macaroons, muffins and other indulgent treats

Pies

Perfect shortcrust and puff pastry and sweet and savoury recipes

Puddings

Crumbles, sponges, trifles and cheesecakes

Chocolate

Luscious chocolate recipes for sharing (or not)

Children

Simple recipes for baking with kids

Christmas

Pudding, Christmas cakes, mince pies... and mulled wine

Bread

Finally, the proof that baking bread can be fun, with easy bread recipes

The Domestic Goddess’s Larder

Essential preserves, jams, chutneys, curds and pickles that every cook should have


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How to Eat

1998

The classic cookbook that will help you rediscover the joys of eating well.

'Cooking is not just about joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next. In cooking, as in writing, you must please yourself to please others.'

Hailed by chefs, reviewers, cookery writers and millions of home cooks worldwide as one of the best cookery books ever written, How To Eat is more than just an imaginative collection of over 350 delicious, simple recipes. Combining Nigella’s down-to-earth, practical cookery advice with a passion for food and a friendly, chatty style, you will need two copies of this glorious classic: one for the kitchen, one for the bedside table.

This is Nigel Slater’s all-time favourite cookbook: “If I could only keep one cookbook, this would be it. How To Eat suits the way I cook. It is as if Nigella is sitting on a stool next to me in the kitchen as I’m cooking ... With every page you know she loves this stuff, and she wants you to love it too. It’s a very, very special book for me. My own copy is falling apart.”

With gloriously witty food writing, easy recipes, basic cooking tips and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family.

Basics

From easy bread recipes and basic roast chicken to sauce ingredients and seasonal foods

Cooking in advance

Slow cooking, marinades and stress-free, easy recipes

One and two

Cooking for one and meals for two people, from the practical to the romantic

Fast food

Easy recipes and quick meal ideas

Weekend lunch

Saturday and Sunday lunch menus, for entertaining friends and family meals

Dinner

Complete dinner menus for any occasion, from an elegant dinner party to a simple supper

Low Fat

Healthy recipes and low-fat meals that still burst with flavour

Feeding babies and small children

Weaning recipes, easy family meals and dishes to tempt that fussy eater


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Nigella Summer

2002

Fabulously sunny recipes for all year round. Easy cooking, easy eating.

'The sweetness of new potatoes, fresh peas, broad beans and the grassy herbalness of asparagus make you almost want to skip with summeriness.'

Warm, witty and gloriously indulgent, this is the delectable summer classic from Nigella Lawson (“Queen of the Kitchen” – Observer Food Monthly).

Full of irresistible summer recipes, Nigella Summer brings the warmth of a sunny afternoon into your kitchen, all year round. Create delicious family meals and delectable outdoor dinners with Italian recipes, Greek feasts, Moroccan roasts, Mauritian curries and a wide range of luxurious puddings and ice-creams.

With luscious photography, easy recipes, witty food writing and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family.

First Course

From simple soups and appetisers to pasta recipes and summery salads

Second Course

Melt-in-the-mouth fish dishes, meat ideas from roasts to kebabs, chicken recipes and a wide range of side dishes and vegetables

Puddings

Indulgent chocolate desserts, pavlovas and cheesecakes, crumble, ice-creamand more…

Drinks

Cocktail recipes for those lazy summer evenings


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Nigella Feast

2004

Food that celebrates life. Joyful meals to share with those you love, from big occasions to everyday pleasures.

'Food is the vital way we celebrate anything that matters. It’s how we mark the connections between us; how we celebrate life.'

A feast for the eyes and the senses, Feast is a must for every kitchen, in the tradition of Nigella’s classic How to Eat. Whether you’re hosting Christmas dinner, planning a wedding or having a children’s party, you’ll find a deliciously simple recipe for any occasion.

With warm and witty food writing, clear recipes and ingredients lists and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family.

Thanksgiving and Christmas

Turkey and ham, mince pies and Christmas cake… and everything in between

New Year

Indulgent dinner menus for friends and family

Meatless feasts

Mouthwatering vegetarian recipes that everyone will love

Valentine’s day

Romantic dinner ideas for two

Easter

Slow-cooked lamb, hot cross buns and indulgent baking

Passover

Seder night suppers and feasts

Breakfast

Something delicious for everyone, from how to boil eggs to morning muffins

Kitchen feasts

Everyday celebrations: suppers for friends and family meals

Kiddie feast

Delicious and healthy recipes for kids

Chocolate cake hall of fame

A chocolate cake recipe for every occasion

Eid

A fast-breaking curry banquet of Mughlai chicken curry, pheasant and lamb

Breakfast

Something delicious for everyone, from how to boil eggs to morning muffins

Ultimate feasts

Roast chicken, homemade burgers, steak, apple pie and other home comforts

Hallowe’en

Party food] and spooky treats

Rosh Hashana

Food for sharing to celebrate the Jewish New Year

A Venetian feast

Glorious Italian recipes for the ultimate banquet

Festival of lights

Indulgent baking recipes for a happy Hannukah

Partytime

Party food ideas that go beyond the sausage roll

Midnight feast

Deliciously easy recipes to satisfy those late-night cravings, from carbonara to alcoholic hot chocolate

Wedding feast

Wedding ideas for the perfect banquet


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Nigella Christmas

2008

Glorious – and easy – meals, snacks and treats that put the joy back into Christmas cooking.

'What comes out of your kitchen means more than anything from a shop ever will.The satisfaction of the season can stem from the stove.'

Christmas is a time for family and friends, for tradition and treats. But when the pressure to deliver the perfect Christmas dinner builds up, the festive season can lose its sparkle.

Let Nigella come to your rescue, with her glorious celebration of the festive season, full of inspirational ideas, reassuring advice and easy-to-follow, reliable Christmas recipes. Here is everything you need to make your Christmas easy and enjoyable, from party food ideas and scrumptious cakes and puddings to the main event itself – turkey with all the trimmings, a vegetarian Christmas dinner or a wide range of delicious alternatives.

With lusciously warm photography, evocative food writing and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious Christmas present for friends and family.

The more the merrier

Cocktails, canapés and other scrumptious party food

Seasonal support

Soups, salads, sauces and serve-later side dishes

Come on over

Easy dinner ideas for stress-free suppers with friends

The main event

From traditional roast turkey to the ultimate Christmas pudding... with all the timings you need for a stress-free Christmas Day

Alternative Christmas dinners

Goose, beef, pork and a vegetarian feast Joy to the world – Christmas baking and sweet treats

All wrapped up

Mouthwatering gift ideas for a personal touch Christmas brunch – recipes to make Boxing Day special


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Nigella Kitchen

2010

Friendly, feel-good meals to make life less complicated and more pleasurable.

Nigella Collection: a vibrant new look for Nigella’s classic cookery books; previously published as KITCHEN.

'A little pottering in the kitchen gives me that feeling I find so crucial, of being in a fixed, familiar place in a whirling world. So here it is, from my kitchen to yours: cosy, cocooning food.'

The classic family recipe book by Nigella Lawson. Kitchen is packed with feel-good food for cooks and eaters that solves all your everyday cooking quandaries, from what to cook for Sunday lunch or how to give children food they’ll eat, to how to rustle up an impromptu dinner party menu or a gluten-free cake. As well as her mouthwatering recipes, Nigella rounds up her kitchen must-haves: essential kitchen equipment and standby ingredients.

With luscious photography, easy family recipes, indulgent food writing and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family.

Part 1: Kitchen Quandaries

What’s for tea? – everyday eating made simple for all ages
Hurry up, I’m hungry! – quick meals and easy suppers for those frantic days
Easy does it – dinner party ideas that won’t try your temper
Cook it better – waste-saving recipes
My sweet solution – problem-solving pudding recipes
Off the cuff – quick dinner ideas for feasts from the fridge-freezer and store cupboard

Part 2: Kitchen Comforts

Chicken and its place in my kitchen – chicken recipes to soothe the soul
A dream of hearth and home – comforting weekend baking, from muffins and cupcakes to brownies, scones and cakes
At my table – steak, casserole, lasagne and much more: easy suppers to share with friends
The solace of stirring – finding comfort in risotto
The bone collection – ham hocks, spare ribs, braised beef and other meaty treats for the die-hard carnivore
Kitchen pickings - easy cocktails and party food
The cook’s cure for Sunday-night-itis - cosy and substantial supper ideas that require little effort from the cook


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Nigella Bites

2001

Fabulous easy meals for everyday life.

Nigella Collection: a vibrant new look for Nigella’s classic cookery books.

‘Cooking isn’t performance art – or shouldn’t be. Make your food welcoming rather than fussy and remember that it’s not a test of your worth and acceptability: it’s just dinner, and can be easily delicious.’

Packed with fresh ideas and exciting new twists on old favourites, Nigella Lawson brings you mouthwatering but simple recipes to add flavour to your busy life – from quick family meals and easy suppers to dinner party menus and roast lunches.

With luscious photography, evocative food writing and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family.

All-Day Breakfast

Recipes to start the day right, whatever time you get up!

Comfort Food

From chocolate fudge cake to mashed potato

TV Dinners

Quick meals and simple snacks

Party Girl

Cupcakes, barbecue chicken and much more to help you celebrate in style

Rainy Days

Family meals to savour and share, and how to feel warm in the kitchen when it's cold outside

Trashy

Kitsch in the kitchen and fun food

Legacy

Recipes from Nigella's family

Suppertime

Dinner party ideas that let you relax

Slow-Cook Weekend

The joys of slow roasting and languorous baking: roast pork, sticky toffee pudding and all the trimmings

Templefood

Recipes to refresh and restore, and make you feel serenely smug


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Nigellissima

2012

Luscious Italian recipes bursting with colour and flavour. Bring the spirit of Italy into your kitchen.

Nigella Collection: a vibrant new look for Nigella’s classic cookery books.

‘This book is borne out of my long love affair with Italy – one that started as a heady teen romance and has weathered the ensuing years intact.’

Nigellissima is a celebration of fresh, tasty and unpretentious cooking, inspired by Nigella’s experiences of living, working and learning to cook in Italy.

In 120 quick and easy recipes, Nigella shows you why Italian food has conquered the world, from sunny pasta dishes to rich lasagne and meats, with indulgent ice cream, cakes and puddings and perfect party food.

With warm and witty food writing, mouthwatering photography and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family.

Pasta

Delicious new twists on spaghetti, risotto, lasagne and other favourites

Flesh, fish and fowl

Easy meat dishes, chicken recipes and succulent fish

Vegetables and sides

Tempting vegetable dishes, salads and potato recipes for any occasion

Sweet things

Panna cotta, ice cream and gorgeous Italian baking

An Italian-inspired Christmas

Roast turkey, puddings and all the trimmings… Christmas dinner with a Mediterranean twist


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