A review by morganmullin
Cook, Eat, Repeat by Nigella Lawson

5.0

This one isn't so much a typical cookbook (though I do love those) as much as it is a loose-formed memoir, a free-verse association on the texture and depth food adds to our lives—complete with a host of beautiful, uncomplicated things to eat. Thoughtful critics have long praised Lawson for making food intellectual (through her researched approach and expansive, descriptive vocabulary), but here she reminds us her work is also emotional, through tributes to brown food and waxing poetic on her love of rhubarb. Read it for the careful pushback against what Instagram has done to eating; read it for luxurious ideas on how to treat yourself (it's not for nothing that Lawson says making a creme caramel for one person is ridiculous—and then proceeds to tell you how); read it for a gleeful reminder of how delicious and wonderful food and eating can be. When Lawson says 'Cook, Eat Repeat is the rhythm of my life', it's an invitation for you to dance in the everyday, too.