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British food writer Nigella Lawson's Feast is written in her signature evocative style and focuses on families. "Whenever an occasion matters to us, we mark this with food, from a birthday cake to a wedding breakfast," she writes in the introduction. "But Feast is not just about big-deal special occasions: it's about the way we use food to celebrate life." It is indeed; Lawson offers menus for holidays and rites of passage big and small, including Christmas, Thanksgiving, Eid, Hanukkah, Passover and Easter. The most fun is a Valentine's Day repast with options for a meal...
...there are still many who dream of being the next Rocco DiSpirito, Mario Batali or Nigella Lawson, and it is for them that CIA president Ryan says he has some concerns. "Students see Sara Moulton on TV and think they could be doing that in a few short years," he says. "We need to make sure they have realistic expectations." Overall, though, most people view the high hopes and enthusiasm of adolescents as a plus. "If you're going to make it--start young," says Greystone's head baking and pastry instructor Robert Jorin, a decades-long veteran...
...doesn't make you feel any more scrutinized." Not if you're one of PEOPLE magazine's Sexiest Men Alive. The previous generation of celebrity chefs--Paul Prudhomme, Emeril Lagasse--became famous more on personality than looks. Now a new group of easy-on-the-eyes cooks--Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, DiSpirito--have thrown a bit of sex into their stew. Today, says DiSpirito, "you have to be a good marketer as much as a good chef just to survive...
...pity more Americans don't enjoy their gnocchi and zucchini flowers with a bottle of prosecco, as celebrity cookbook queen Nigella Lawson does [AT DINNER WITH, May 26]. Too many people are washing down their Wal-Mart hot dogs and fat-free Oreos with Snapple. Or jogging off their egg-white omelets. I would love to see a healthy middle ground between eating junk and starving to be thin. The norm should be voluptuous women and a savoring of good food and long dinners. SHERRY OLSEN San Francisco
...grandiose and ironic (a recipe in her first book begins, "I first had salsa verde when I was a chambermaid in Florence...") with a healthy sprinkling of famous names. Her father Nigel was a journalist before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher. After graduating from Oxford, Nigella followed her father into journalism at the Sunday Times of London. Soon she veered into her mother's territory (Vanessa Lawson was an heiress to a chain of tea shops) and started writing about food...