Essentially about families and food, about public holidays and private passions, about
how to celebrate the big occasions and the small everyday pleasures - those times when
food is very definitely much more than fuel - it includes everything from Christmas,
Thanksgiving and Birthdays, to Passover and a special Sardinian Easter; from that first
breakfast together to a meal fit for the In-Laws, from seasonal feasts of strawberries or
chestnuts to the ultimate chocolate cake Hall of Fame; from cocktail food for cheering up
the 'Unhappy Hour' to funeral baked meats, from a Georgian feast to a Love-Fest; from
Nigella's all-time favourite dish to a final New Year fast.

Heartwarming, sensual, passionate, informed, refreshingly uncomplicated and full of
ideas, this is Nigella at her best, with helpful menus for whole meals, too, and more than
120 glorious colour photographs.