{"product_id":"9780008670740","title":"A Thousand Feasts : Small Moments of Joy … a Memoir of Sorts","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Nigel Slater\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eCeramic arts, pottery, glass\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 26 September 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e208 x 145 x 35mm | 448g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  From 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\u003e For 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\u003e These 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\u003e This 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","brand":"Nigel Slater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56153607700805,"sku":"9780008670740","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780008670740.jpg?v=1762272106","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780008670740","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}