Feast on Your Life
Kitchen Meditations for Every Day
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Swift Press
Publishing:8th Oct '26
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 8th October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£18.99(9781800754744)
From the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal comes a daily record of culinary mindfulness and joy.
‘Delight is in your kitchen, or in a friend’s, or at a stove, or in remembering a stove you stood at long ago,’ writes Tamar Adler. Adler found solace spending a year recording the pleasures of the kitchen, and believes her account will do the same for readers.
Each entry is a celebration of simple abundance. Adler offers short, lyrical musings – a list of words, a quick poem – and longer, thought‑provoking meditations.
Step into a world where cooking becomes an exercise in mindfulness and gratitude. Adler brings her signature warmth and poetic charm to this daily devotional. Her prose has earned comparisons to legendary food writers M. F. K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin. With Adler’s gentle guidance, even the most routine tasks become opportunities for reflection. Her voice is like a trusted friend’s – comforting and inspiring.
Adler helps us see the magic in everyday meals and embrace cooking with a renewed sense of peace.
‘Adler is the best kind of kitchen companion, someone whose warm and witty voice I want to carry with me as I cook’ - Bee Wilson
'Exquisite... has the bare honesty of diary entries and the chiselled beauty of prose-poems. I'm so grateful that it's in the world' - Nigella Lawson
'Potent joy... As a human and a writer, Adler finds her grounding by paying exceptionally close attention, and her easily consumed examples nudge the reader to do the same' - Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times
‘An absolutely unmissable food diary’ - Observer
‘Certainly provides food for thought … A mash-up of memoir, kitchen notebook, occasional recipe book and philosophical navel-gazer … This is mindfulness in action… stop. Look. Focus. Feel … An object lesson in taking refuge in small pleasures’ - Sunday Times
‘An ode to cooking as a habit, a comfort and an everyday joy … I’m not sure there’s another cook currently writing who has the power to transform her readers’ relationships to their own kitchens quite like Tamar Adler … One of the most invigorating and, yes, life-affirming tributes to an existence bookended by meals since Laurie Colwin’s Home Cooking’ - Vogue
‘Will give any reader a whole year of mindful musings … A delight’ - Women Talking
Praise for An Everlasting Meal:
‘The most beautifully written description of what cooking is all about, and what it actually is, with recipes' - Nigella Lawson
‘Like Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat, it’s a book to gorge on for its quiet, gentle and uplifting wisdom’ - Best Food Books of 2022, The Times
‘Tamar Adler has written the best book on ‘cooking with economy and grace’ that I have read since MFK Fisher’ - Michael Pollan
‘Tamar Adler is more than a wonderful food writer – she is a wonderful writer … A profound book’ - Sheila Heti
ISBN: 9781800754768
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288 pages