The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater

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The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater

by Nigel Slater, Jonathan Lovekin (Photographer)

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�Right food, right place, right time. It is my belief�and the point of this book�that this is the best recipe of all. A crab sandwich by the sea on a June afternoon; a slice of roast goose with apple sauce and roast potatoes on Christmas Day; hot sausages and a chunk of roast pumpkin on a frost-sparkling night in November. These are meals whose success relies not on the ex...more �Right food, right place, right time. It is my belief�and the point of this book�that this is the best recipe of all. A crab sandwich by the sea on a June afternoon; a slice of roast goose with apple sauce and roast potatoes on Christmas Day; hot sausages and a chunk of roast pumpkin on a frost-sparkling night in November. These are meals whose success relies not on the expertise of the cook but on the more basic premise that this is the food of the moment--something eaten at a time when it is most appropriate, when the ingredients are at their peak of perfection, when the food, the cook and the time of year are at one with each other.�
�Nigel Slater, The Kitchen Diaries

Nigel Slater writes about food in a way that stimulates the imagination, the heart, and the palate all at once. The Kitchen Diaries brings an especially personal ingredient to the mix, letting us glimpse his pantry, tour local farmers� markets with him, and savor even the simplest meals at his table.

Recording twelve months in his culinary life, Slater shares seasonal dishes and the intriguing elements behind them. As someone who celebrates each visit to the cheese shop or butcher, he enthusiastically conveys the brilliant array of choices and encourages his view of food shopping as an adventure rather than a chore. A rainy day in February calls for a hearty stew; summertime finds him feasting on a lunch as simple as baked tomatoes with grated Parmesan. If an exotic mood strikes him, slow-roasted duck with star anise and ginger is in order. In The Kitchen Diaries, Nigel interweaves his meditations on how food should be enjoyed and prepared with his delicious recipes. No matter the season, The Kitchen Diaries offers a year-round invitation to cook and dine with the world�s most irresistible lover of food. BACKCOVER: Praise for Nigel Slater

�His writing could not be more palate-cleansing his acidic riffs put you in mind of Nick Hornby, Martin Amis and Philip Larkin all at the same time.�
�The New York Times

�Nigel is a genius.�
�Jamie Oliver, author of Jamie�s Kitchen, The Naked Chef, and Happy Days with the Naked Chef

�unpretentious, delicious�
�Nigella Lawson, author of How to Be a Domestic Goddess

�The recipes sound uniformly delicious, rustic and tasty...but they�re also straight forward: easy to follow, easy to cook.�
�Independent on Sunday

�joyous�
�Guardian Weekend

�Slater wants his food, above all, to be uplifting. As a cookbook, The Kitchen Diaries succeeds brilliantly.�
�William Leith, Observer (London)

�it's a collection of scrumptious recipes, somehow written in such a way as to make your mouth genuinely water.�
�Rebecca Seal, Observer (London)

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Published October 19th 2006 by Gotham (first published January 1st 2005)

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Jan 31, 2008 Tamara rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

Beware: this is possibly the longest review I've ever written of a book I have only skimmed.

Three things I disliked about this book:

1. I had a very hard time convincing myself to “read” a cookbook. I usually skim. But when I skimmed I missed things!
2.I hate it when authors live in much more advanced, metropolitan areas and think that it’s easy to find 10 farmer’s markets “on the way home.” This just makes me jealous.
3. I find it suspect that someone would keep an ingredient such as rhubarb “...more Beware: this is possibly the longest review I've ever written of a book I have only skimmed.

Three things I disliked about this book:

1. I had a very hard time convincing myself to “read” a cookbook. I usually skim. But when I skimmed I missed things!
2.I hate it when authors live in much more advanced, metropolitan areas and think that it’s easy to find 10 farmer’s markets “on the way home.” This just makes me jealous.
3. I find it suspect that someone would keep an ingredient such as rhubarb “on hand.”

Despite all of that, each diary entry that began with a description of the sky made my mouth water. (See quotes below.) This man clearly loves food and nature, and can ruminate very eloquently about both. Bravo, Nigel. Bravo.

"A sky as clear and bright as iced water; plum and pear blossom breaking out in the garden; the hot scent of grated ginger coming from the kitchen. If only all days could prick the senses like this one."

"A still, quiet morning, as humid as a Turkish bath. I sit barefoot in the garden, sipping green tea and listening to the sound of church bells."

"Arms red and tingling from the sun and sea air. We have huge, kite-sized pieces of flounder in batter, with lemon and thick fried potatoes, eaten on the beach. Worth the wait, the drive there and the drive back home in the dark with the windows open and the music on too loud."

"Hazy morning, the air silent and heavy. The garden is turning from pink to orange, aflame from midday, when the sun comes over the top of the house and floods the garden with burning light. Montbretia, nasturtiums, Indian Prince marigolds, dahlias, zucchini flowers, hot-eye watering flowers in bright sunlight line the beds. The tomatoes are ripening, a single eggplant is hanging down from the purple-leaved plant in a deep pot on the back steps. The garden is suddenly a vibrant, vulgar, scorching place to eat."

One of the few paragraphs that make beets sound appealing: "Two of us ate the beets and their greens with slices of crumbly goat cheese, hacking off bits of cheese and pushing them on to the still-warm beets with ruby-stained fingers. After the fudgy, chalk-white cheese and sweet, claret roots, we filled up on slices of thick buttered soft white bread…"

Something I very much want to do when I am rich: “One of the reasons I bought this house was because the doors to the small, narrow kitchen opened out on to the garden and when I found them to be rotten, I rejoiced and replaced them with a much wider pair, hanging them on parliament hinges so each door could be pushed flat against the outside walls, giving the effect of kitchen and garden as one. I cook with the doors open on even the wettest day. The smell of spring rain as I chop and stir brings with it a gentle freshness and energy…every plant, tree and bush seems to have woken up this week."
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Feb 03, 2013 Sheena Lambert rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: cookery-books

Another great book by Nigel Slater. This time he cooks his way through the calendar year. As with APPETITE (his other book I own) this book reads as well as any novel, and introduces its recipes like anecdotes. I love being able to refer to the date (or month anyway) I am myself cooking in to see what might be a suitable recipe/shopping list for the day's dinner.
My one gripe with the format of the book, is that Nigel comes across as a little annoying insofar as all he seems to spend his day doin...more

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Mar 24, 2010 Philippa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2010

So many of my foodie friends talked about this book and now I know why. It is quite possibly the best cookbook I've ever read. Inviting, sumptuous, but never prentious, Nigel Slater talks us through a year of meals he cooks and eats, tantalising with delicious details. He eats seasonally, so each month reflects the best of what is naturally available at that time of year, which is the ideal way to cook and enjoy food. As well as recipes, there are just loads of great ideas - things to pull toget...more

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Nov 26, 2010 Garry rated it 4 of 5 stars

A lively read. Nigel Simpson writes "recipes" in the style of Elizabeth David. He does not number every little step and he is not always super precise in his measurements - "a good handful," "a glass of," and the like appearing more often than, say, "one and a half teaspoons" -- and employing lively, evocative descriptors like "enthusiastic boil" over traditional cookbookspeak. What is most interesting are the days when he confronts leftovers or seeks inspiration from what is on hand in his hous...more

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Sep 01, 2010 Anna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I got this book almost 5 years ago as a Christmas present from my husband (then-fiancé). I wasn't too sure about it at first, because I like my cookbooks to be ordered by courses, rather than by seasons.
But actually, this book has taught me a lot - making use of everything you buy, and learning to choose produce which is in season, rather than imported from other continents. And I have found that I enjoy cooking even more than before, thanks to this book. The diary part I avoided for a long tim...more

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Nov 27, 2009 Thomas rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction

I love this book!

Food writer Nigel Slater, Britain's lesser known culinary hero, keeps a record of things cooked and eaten throughout the year, providing easy recipes and full color photos. The result is not just readable -- an accomplishment in itself, for a cookbook -- but thoroughly enchanting. And its so wonderfully unpretentious! He's into farmers markets and seasonality, for example, but he's not a zealot about it. And the meals he cooks sound amazing but they aren't terribly elaborate; of...more

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Aug 24, 2010 Unwisely rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, non-fiction, cookbook, memoir

Sort of a memoir/cookbook combo, recording what some dude I'd never heard of (but who has apparently published other cookbooks) cooked over the course of a year. His recipes are super-accessibly written (he says things like "the parmesan is indispensible in this", or "not necessary, but nice").

I haven't cooked anything out of it, but it was certainly a pleasant read. And if nothing else he's inspired me to attempt to ripen mangoes at home, something I didn't even know was a possibility. (Peache...more

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Dec 23, 2009 Elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Sarah

Recommended to Elizabeth by: Shana

Shelves: cookbooks, food-writing

I really can't recall the last time I enjoyed reading a book as much as I enjoyed The Kitchen Diaries. I spent most the weekend curled up with it on the couch under a warm blanket, drinking a hot mug of coffee. It's basically the perfect format for me - a combination of diary and cookbook, reflecting on seasonal eating, cooking experiments (both good and bad), and the pleasures (and sometimes shames) of food. After reading through half the year on Saturday, I woke up Sunday morning dreaming of p...more

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Dec 31, 2007 Shimelle rated it 5 of 5 stars

I read this slowly and surely over 2007 and it has been such a life-altering experience. We live without television, so I couldn't tell you the first thing about Slater being a TV chef. We received Appetite as a gift a few years ago and fell in love with the simplicity of his recipes. Our favourite dish is from that book and it requires three ingredients, yet I guarantee it wouldn't be out of place with a high price tag at a good restaurant. So last year I picked up The Kitchen Diaries as a Chri...more I read this slowly and surely over 2007 and it has been such a life-altering experience. We live without television, so I couldn't tell you the first thing about Slater being a TV chef. We received Appetite as a gift a few years ago and fell in love with the simplicity of his recipes. Our favourite dish is from that book and it requires three ingredients, yet I guarantee it wouldn't be out of place with a high price tag at a good restaurant. So last year I picked up The Kitchen Diaries as a Christmas gift to my other half, but it was me who fell in love with the idea of a narrative that takes one through a full year of honest, good food.

We are split over this one in our house: I like it because of the diary format, which gives me more information about what the experts look for...but without it feeling like I am being lectured. The boy of the household prefers Slater's recipe-only books because he can flip right to something and make it, no-nonsense. But then, that exemplifies the differences in our personalities. I had to resist the urge to read the whole thing like a novel over a few days, and instead read a little each month to see if he would be right about what beauties I would find at the farmer's market and so forth. Of course he was. Plus the diary format makes it feel like you're getting to know a chef's secrets. And we all like to have a few of our secrets in the kitchen to make our guests ask how on earth we could have made something so lovely.

While I am honestly a bit sad to get to the end of the book...and as a vegetarian, I knew the big finish of a Christmas dinner would not be my favourite part of the book...but I am inspired. This month I started keeping my own notes, and for 2008 I am planning to keep my own kitchen diary as a personal journey. I have to salute the writer here for never boring me with talk of vegetables, but also for letting us all know that even famous chefs have days where they grab bread from the local bakery and make a sandwich with the leftovers. Hurrah for humanity.(less)

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Jan 20, 2008 Becky rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction, age-adult-books

I heard Nigel Slater read from the "December" section of this book on the radio last Christmas Eve. I'm not kidding when I say I haven't forgotten it since. I've finally gotten ahold of the book and oh, the photos, and oh, the descriptions. One reviewer called it "food poetry." Will be cuddling up with this one for sure as the weather gets colder.

I've got to return this one, even though I could easily keep it on my nightstand and read each "diary entry" as the year goes by. This book could turn...more

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Jun 16, 2007 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: lauren

Shelves: non-fiction

This month-by-month cookbook/memoir is the star British chef's diary of a year and what he really eats at home. If guests come over, it might be a roast with all the trimmings and a fabulous dessert. But if it's just him-and maybe his partner, whose presence is strongly felt but never named explicitly-it's a number of the kitchen meals we might do, described in an evocative way: a cold sausage from the fridge, perfect strawberries and cream. He writes about frustrations he finds in his weekly "o...more

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Jun 21, 2007 devra rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: cookbooks, foodlit

earlier this week, i finally finished my much-anticipated read of nigel slater's "kitchen diaries," a year-long account of what happened in his kitchen and garden in london. i had hoped it would provide me with some inspiration, especially for writing about my food, and as an added bonus might have a few pictures or a pleasant recipe.oh, how it was everything i hoped for and more. the writing was like food poetry. or porn, if one must be more graphic about it. every word conveyed this complete d...more earlier this week, i finally finished my much-anticipated read of nigel slater's "kitchen diaries," a year-long account of what happened in his kitchen and garden in london. i had hoped it would provide me with some inspiration, especially for writing about my food, and as an added bonus might have a few pictures or a pleasant recipe.  oh, how it was everything i hoped for and more. the writing was like food poetry. or porn, if one must be more graphic about it. every word conveyed this complete delight in food, even on those days where he was lazy or tired and just pulled a hunk of cheese and a slice of bread out of his refrigerator. i can only hope that with more concerted practice, i can express myself so eloquently about how much fun i have in my kitchen.  and then there were the recipes. they were all of them simple, elegant, and making the most of whatever fruit or veg might be in season (although he did demonstrate a love for fish and fennel that i could never get on board with). one of the reasons it took me so long to read this book was because i didn't want to read it away from my computer, where i would forget about all the gems i was unearthing. i wanted my recipe collection right in front of me, so that i could add each morsel as it came. i've already played with one of the recipes--a marmalade cake--and even though it wasn't perfect, it was still exactly what i wanted from 'diaries'--simple, relatively fast, with easy ingredients. i must have pulled between 30-50 recipes from the book, and the only thing that stopped me from pulling more was the fish factor. i even started pulling his two-line paragraphs about his formula for miso soup, or frittatas, or a ham and mushroom sandwich, just because the prose was so lovely it seemed to express more inspiration for such simple fare than i could ever muster.  and so, with this, i hope to step up my efforts to document my kitchen adventures, and my projects in general. i definitely need to work harder on my food photography (not just vis a vis slater, but after spending much of the week thus far browsing food blogs i am ashamed of my own efforts). and i hope to embrace the simplicity that nigel brought to his cooking. each day, he'd hunt for ingredients. he rarely planned ahead (although i don't fancy giving that up any time soon, as i get so much pleasure out of anticipating what i might cook) and took his time with everything. each day was a new challenge, even when he was just considering a salad for his own lunch. it was truly...delicious.(less)

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Sep 29, 2011 Joanna rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: profoundly-british

Reading this book was like eating the perfect meal—I enjoyed each entry and wanted to linger at his table for much, much longer. What I like most is how simple eating is to him. He assesses the weather and season and his mood and has no shame in feeding himself the antidote (or indulging in the sweet misery of a gray day with some kind of stew). Basically my new goal in life is to buy a cottage in the English countryside and recreate what I imagine his kitchen and garden must be, even though I k...more

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Sep 16, 2008 fourstar rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: food

Like all his 'recipe books' there is a theme running through this, which in this case is a whole year's diary of meals. Is this a fake construct or did he actually eat all those delicious recipes? I think he probably did (and more, which didn't make it into the final edit). Either way, some fantastic recipes included, all using seasonal produce from that fabulous little farmers market round the corner (yeah, I know, in reality it's shrink-wrapped from Tesco Metro at the Tube station).

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Jul 06, 2009 Samantha rated it 5 of 5 stars

There are a few books about food I read each year that I know within about four pages that not only am I going to need to acquire, but I'm going to end up stuck in the house reading each page, captivated, and am going to spend the next several weeks cooking avidly out of, and then use forever more on a regular basis.

Nigel Slater's "The Kitchen Diaries" is definitely one of these books.

Slater goes through a year of his own meals, sometimes giving full recipes, other times just offering a little m...more

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May 10, 2012 Peter rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: food

I love Nigel's writing and his recipes are always straight forward, easy to follow and above all they work! And very tasty too.This book in particular is interesting as you can cook along through the year using ingredients as they appear in- season and if you follow it through you will get the opportunity to use techniques and cook dishes that maybe you've never tried before.

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Mar 20, 2012 Zarb rated it 4 of 5 stars

It's quite self indulgent to record your eating habits over a year and to then publish it all, but if you're Nigel Slater such an exercise just seems genuine. The man knows how to balance a passion for food with the need for practicality. It's not diner party stuff, it's cooking for the everyday, without compromising variety, taste or nourishment.

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Jan 29, 2013 Alex rated it 5 of 5 stars

OK, so this is essentially a cookery book, but it's so beautifully written as a series of diaries it is much more than this! Fabulous seasonal recipes with delightful notes and commentaries. I know not everyone is a Nigel fan, but I just love his passion for good simple seasonal food, and his evocative style of writing.

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Aug 16, 2012 Laura rated it 5 of 5 stars

I give this 5 stars because it really stuck with me. I can really imagine that poor kid Nigel, watching his pal eat homemade goodies while the pal's mum didn't offer anything to Nigel. And I understand a kid's frustration when the adults don't tell him what's going on...Plus I'm a big sucker for English tales of most kinds.

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Jun 08, 2009 Anina Ertel rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: foods

One of my favorite food books, I checked it out again because my CSA started up for the summer. The recipes are seasonal for a whole year, and it's a really good book for learning to cook simply because while a few of the recipes are fancy, most of them are just suggestions for yummy combinations.

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Mar 22, 2012 Finn rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

Food porn at it's best. At first I found this book tough to get in to as it's counter-intuitive for me to read a cookbook like a novel, cover to cover (especially a 400+ page one). But how very worth it! I want to buy a copy of this book and keep it on my shelves to reference and flip through. I want to swim through it's pages after farmers' market adventures and lick my fingers, smacking my lips with drizzles of olive oil and milky pillows of fresh burrata. Nigel Slater lives my culinary fantas...more

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Feb 29, 2008 Hallie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites, cooking-eating, memoir

Warning: this book will fill you with longing for Nigel or his boyfriend's life. Every single day is documented. After a day spent making homemade flatbread and taramasalata, he writes "In my smug haze of good house-keeping from yesterday's baking session, not to mention my arch disdain for factory produced foods, I fail to notice there is bugger all to eat in the house. At seven-thirty I dash to the corner shop, returning with a can of baked beans, a bag of frozen fries, and some beers." See, n...more

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Jan 03, 2010 Mhgoblue rated it 3 of 5 stars

The recipes are good but the prose is too flowery for my taste. Give me Nigella Lawson any day. And that's saying something, flowery-writing-wise. The part quoted at the top of this book page, though, about what makes a great meal, is beautifully put.

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Mar 11, 2009 Monica rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: cookbooks

Nigel Slater is a wanker but he makes good food. The meaty options are lost on me, but the veg and desserts are always delicious (thanks to Nigel's generous use of olive oil, butter and cream). The photography is also inspiring.

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Feb 25, 2011 Marilyn rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: food-books

I loved this book. I read it over a year, only reading the entry for each day, which was hard to do and not read ahead, but it was worth the wait to read it as Nigel Slater wrote it over time.

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Jun 04, 2012 Peter Clarke rated it 5 of 5 stars

A lovely cookbook written by a self-taught english cook. His approach is to describe the weather, whats in season, how hes feeling and hence what he cooks on a day by day basis

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Dec 12, 2011 Julie Davis rated it 5 of 5 stars

I'm rereading this is a "devotional" sort of way. That is to say, meandering my way through somewhat in time with the journal entries. It is a wonderful way to keep a more spontaneous and different approach to cooking fresh in my mind as I wend my way through the months.

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I finished rereading this and enjoyed it quite a lot as a kitchen "devotional" ... in fact, I'll be using Rose's shrimp risotto (planned for Friday) as the basis for next weekend's cooking, because Slater reminded me of Ris...more

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Dec 07, 2010 Roz Dibley rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love Nigel Slater and the way he writes - like all good cookbooks, this is one that can be read whilst sitting in bed thinking about what you would like to cook.

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Aug 05, 2012 Charmaine rated it 5 of 5 stars

this is one of the few cookbooks that i kept on going back to. is amazing that i get new inspirations from it every single time. i love it.

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Mar 10, 2013 Jeannie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013, amazing-books, cookbooks

I really enjoyed this book. It was a really insightful glimpse of a food writers kitchen, and had some great recipes as well.

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About Nigel Slater

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 earl...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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