{"product_id":"a-thousand-feasts-a-joyful-new-memoir-on-the-pleasures-of-food-travel-and-gardening-from-the-sunday-times-bestselling-author-by-nigel-slater","title":"A Thousand Feasts: a joyful new memoir on the pleasures of food, travel and gardening by Nigel Slater","description":"\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","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44108986187850,"sku":"6960k","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6960k.jpg?v=1787719772","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/a-thousand-feasts-a-joyful-new-memoir-on-the-pleasures-of-food-travel-and-gardening-from-the-sunday-times-bestselling-author-by-nigel-slater","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}