The Kitchen Diaries - Softcover

Slater, Nigel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007241151 ISBN 13: 9780007241156

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2007

Synopsis

Following the success of ‘Real Food’ and ‘Appetite’, this is the tenth book from Nigel Slater, the award-winning food writer and author of the bestselling autobiography, ‘Toast’.

‘The food in “The Kitchen Diaries” is simply what I eat at home. The stuff I make for myself, for friends and family, for visitors and for parties, for Sunday lunch and for snacks. These are meals I make when I stop work, or when I am having mates over or when I want to surprise, seduce or show off. This is what I cook when I’m feeling energetic, lazy, hungry or late. It is what I eat when I’m not phoning out for pizza or going for a curry. This is the food that makes up my life, both the Monday to Friday stuff and that for weekends and special occasions.’

‘Much of it is what you might call fast food, because I still believe that life is too short to spend all day at the stove, but some of it is unapologetically long, slow cooking. But without exception every single recipe in this book is a doddle to cook. A walk in the park. A piece of p***.’

‘Fast food, slow food, big eats, little eats, quick pasta suppers, family roasts and even Christmas lunch. It is simply my stuff, what I cook and eat, every day. Nigel’s food – for you.’

About this title

Review:

'Nigel is a bloody genius.' Jamie Oliver

'The greatest cookery writer of them all.' Guardian

'The pick of the bunch...bubbling with ideas, suggestions, hints and personal opinions that genuinely help you to make your own mind up about how and what to cook.' The Times

'He's a genius.' Matthew Fort, Guardian

‘Slater remains the reigning champion, a writer incapable of uninspiring sentences.' Daily Express

‘No one writes more temptingly about food.' Independent

'My kitchen god.' Red

About the Author:

Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of bestselling books and presenter of BBC 1's Simple Cooking. He has been food columnist for The Observer for twenty years. His books include the classics Appetite and The Kitchen Diaries and the critically acclaimed two-volume Tender. His award winning memoir Toast – the Story of a Boy's Hunger won six major awards and is now a BBC film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Freddie Highmore. His writing has won the National Book Awards, the Glenfiddich Trophy, the André Simon Memorial Prize and the British Biography of the Year. He was the winner of a Guild of Food Writers' Award for his BBC 1 series Simple Suppers.

www.nigelslater.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0007241151
• ISBN 13: 9780007241156
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400