Sated by Nigella's Yuletide ; the Domestic Goddess has No Truck with Restraint

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Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities by Nigella Lawson (Chatto, [pounds]25)

IN HER first and best cookery book, How To Eat, Nigella Lawson gave a crisp 20 pages to Christmas. "Christmas is every cook's nightmare," she said. "Even if you like cookery, Christmas can induce panic and depression." She even confessed: "I end up suffering from boredom-induced bloat." Here, though, is her Christmas extravaganza, a big brightred picture book. Now she's Christmascrazy: "I wallow in it; I relish it." No Christian, she happily attaches herself to the season as a pagan instead. "Christmas is not just a time when the Domestic Goddess comes into her own but a moment to conjure up the Domestic Druid as well." Even a choccy Yule Log brings out her inner heathen.

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Sated by Nigella's Yuletide ; the Domestic Goddess has No Truck with Restraint

"I warm to it most of all for the rich pagan symbolism." With this one...

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