Nigel Slater

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January 01, 1958 in Wolverhampton, England, The United Kingdom

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http://www.nigelslater.com

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Cooking, Food & Wine, Nonfiction, Gardening

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Nigel Slater is a British food writer, journalist and broadcaster. He has written a column for The Observer Magazine for seventeen years and is the principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly supplement. Prior to this, Slater was food writer for Marie Claire for five years. He also serves as art director for his books.

Although best known for uncomplicated, comfort food recipes presented in early bestselling books such as The 30-Minute Cook and Real Cooking, as well as his engaging, memoir-like columns for The Observer, Slater became known to a wider audience with the publication of Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger, a moving and award-winning autobiography focused on his love of food, his childhood, his family relationships (his mother...more Nigel Slater is a British food writer, journalist and broadcaster. He has written a column for The Observer Magazine for seventeen years and is the principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly supplement. Prior to this, Slater was food writer for Marie Claire for five years. He also serves as art director for his books.

Although best known for uncomplicated, comfort food recipes presented in early bestselling books such as The 30-Minute Cook and Real Cooking, as well as his engaging, memoir-like columns for The Observer, Slater became known to a wider audience with the publication of Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger, a moving and award-winning autobiography focused on his love of food, his childhood, his family relationships (his mother died of asthma when he was nine), and his burgeoning sexuality.

Slater has called it "the most intimate memoir that any food person has ever written". Toast was published in Britain in October 2004 and became a bestseller after it was featured on the Richard and Judy Book Club.

"I think the really interesting bits of my story was growing up with this terribly dominating dad and a mum who I loved to bits but obviously I lost very early on; and then having to fight with the woman who replaced her ... I kind of think that in a way that that was partly what attracted me to working in the food service industry, was that I finally had a family." As he told The Observer, "The last bit of the book is very foody. But that is how it was. Towards the end I finally get rid of these two people in my life I did not like [his father and stepmother, who had been the family's cleaning lady] - and to be honest I was really very jubilant - and thereafter all I wanted to do was cook."

In 1998 Slater hosted the Channel 4 series Nigel Slater's Real Food Show. He returned to TV in 2006 hosting the chat/food show A Taste of My Life for BBC One.

Slater has two elder brothers, Adrian and John. John was the child of a neighbour, and was adopted by Slater's parents before the writer was born.

He lives in the Highbury area of North London, where he maintains a kitchen garden which often features in his column.(less)

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Average rating: 3.91 · 3,682 ratings · 476 reviews · 26 distinct works

	Toast 3.59 avg rating — 1,653 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater by Nigel Slater, Jonathan Lovekin (Photographer) 4.30 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Appetite 4.27 avg rating — 398 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Tender: Volume I: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch 4.30 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Real Fast Food 4.08 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 1992 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at the Table 3.61 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Nigel Slater's Real Food 4.29 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tender: Volume II: A Cook's Guide to the Fruit Garden by Nigel Slater, Jonathan Lovekin (Photography) 4.55 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Real Cooking 4.17 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The 30-Minute Cook: The Best of the World's Quick Cooking 3.93 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you. ”
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“Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?”
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“I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.”
― Nigel Slater, Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at the Table

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