Title:

Nigella Express
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2007) ISBN 978-0676979763 0-676979769

Theme:

Nigella Express is a 390-page cookbook with 130 recipes for fast food and instructions on how to prepare meals quickly.

Sample Recipes:

Smoked cod and cannellini. Naan pizza. Avocado crayfish cocktail. Breakfast bruschetta. Gravlax sashimi. Irish Cream tiramisu. Mirin glazed salmon. Butternut and sweet potato soup. Green apple martini. Tuna, crab and avocado wraps. Duck breasts with pomegranate and mint. Ginger passionfruit trifle. Marsala honey pears with gorgonzola. Pomegranate bellini. Merguez with halloumi and flame roasted peppers. Wasabi lime dressing. Clafoutis.

Notable Elements:

All recipe ingredients are metric (grams and mls rather than ounces and teaspoons). The book includes a ribbon as a page marker. The Storecupboard SOS sidebar features shortcuts and recipes for infused oils like garlic oil, wok oil and chilli oil.

Tone / Style:

Nigella Express recipes have short, numbered, easy to follow instructions. All recipes are one page or less, including Nigella's introduction, ingredients and instructions. Chapter introductions by Nigella offer cooking shortcuts, tips for making meals when you are in a hurry and ways to save time preparing ingredients.

Visuals:

Full-color, full-page images depict the delectable finished dishes in Nigella Express.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Everyday Easy
• Workday Winners
• Retro Rapido
• Get Up and Go
• Quick Quick Slow
• Against the Clock
• Instant Calmer
• Razzle Dazzle
• Speedy Gonzales
• On the Run
• Hey Presto
• Holiday Snaps
• Storecupboard SOS
• Index

Author:

Nigella Lawson

Claim to fame:

Nigella Lawson is the author of five other cook books and the hostess of several TV cooking shows.

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