{"product_id":"a-thousand-feasts","title":"A Thousand Feasts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning writer Nigel Slater comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoirs, stories, and small moments of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Nigel Slater’s prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour'\u003c\/em\u003e - Elizabeth Day\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘I loved this. It is a secular book of hours – thoughts and pleasures beautifully cadenced and generously placed’\u003c\/em\u003e - Edmund de Waal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Nigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing, sustaining book’\u003c\/em\u003e - Olivia Laing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\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’\u003c\/em\u003e - Nigella Lawson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\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”’\u003c\/em\u003e - Diana Henry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45839070462188,"sku":"9780008670740","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780008670740.jpg?v=1729462259","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/a-thousand-feasts","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}