How to Eat
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 First edition | |
| Author | Nigella Lawson |
|---|---|
| Subject | Cookery |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | England |
| Pages | 514 |
How to Eat is a 1998 book of English cuisine by the celebrity cook Nigella Lawson.[1] It features culinary tips on preparation and saving time,[2] and sold 300,000 copies in Britain.[3] It was praised by critics as a valuable guide to cooking.
The book is divided into themed chapters, such as cooking for "One or Two". Most of each chapter consists of recipes, but the chapters begin with a few pages of general advice on the theme, such as that while cooking for one may feel "onanistic", "it might be a good thing to consider yourself worth cooking for."[4]
The ingredients and quantities are tabulated in red boldface type. The recipe itself is given as a paragraph of instructions in light type.
The techniques used are not rigidly traditional: in her recipe for Ratatouille, introduced to Britain by Elizabeth David, Lawson admits that she is departing from David's prescriptions, but states that this does not seem to make much difference as she does not get a "soggy mush" by skipping the hour spent salting the aubergine and courgettes, but she explains the David method in an aside, just in case anyone want to try it.[5]