Aeon
May 28, 2017 - 8 min
How "Cook, Eat, Repeat" became a lockdown antidote. "How to Eat", Nigella Lawson's first cookbook, was funny, literary, irreverent and completely reinvented the format. Now, over two decades later, Bee Wilson explores in the Guardian why the adored cook's evocative, appetite-driven food writing influenced a generation.