{"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 BESTSELLERFrom awardwinning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.Nigel Slaters prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour ELIZABETH DAYFor years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fishermans hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei.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.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.I loved this. It is a secular book of hours  thoughts and pleasures beautifully cadenced and generously placed Edmund de WaalNigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing, sustaining book Olivia LaingHis evocative, uplifting observations are a balm for life: a prosepoem for eaters and a spiritual companion for thoughtful cooks. A true and enduring joy Nigella LawsonYou cant 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 HenryNigel Slaters book A Thousand Feasts was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller w\/c 20240923.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fourth Estate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45901970800838,"sku":"DADAX0008670749","price":48.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/613zbWG24EL.jpg?v=1780334508","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/a-thousand-feasts-a-new-memoir-on-how-to-find-joy-in-food-travel-and-gardening","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}