{"product_id":"a-thousand-feasts-a-new-memoir-on-how-to-find-joy-in-food-travel-and-gardening","title":"A Thousand Feasts: a new memoir on how to find joy in food, travel and gardening","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Nigel Slater’s prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour' ELIZABETH DAY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman’s hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the sound of water breathing at night in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I loved this. It is a secular book of hours – thoughts and pleasures beautifully cadenced and generously placed’ Edmund de Waal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Nigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing, sustaining book’ Olivia Laing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘His evocative, uplifting observations are a balm for life: a prose-poem for eaters and a spiritual companion for thoughtful cooks. A true and enduring joy’ Nigella Lawson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘You can’t always feel buoyant and grateful but noticing – and getting pleasure from – the seemingly insignificant is a good way to live. As he says, feel the “small moments of joy”’ Diana Henry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNigel Slater's book 'A Thousand Feasts' was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller w\/c 2024-09-23.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57148883272011,"sku":"9780008670788","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9780008670788.jpg?v=1777389606","url":"https:\/\/paperwing.co.uk\/products\/a-thousand-feasts-a-new-memoir-on-how-to-find-joy-in-food-travel-and-gardening","provider":"Paperwing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}