TOAST is top food writer Nigel Slater's eat-and-tell autobiography. Detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked his passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer. In December 2010 the BBC will bring out a film of Toast starring Helena Bonham-Carter and directed by Lee Hall, who won an oscar nomination for Billy Elliot.Britain's most popular cook describes his personal culinary odyssey, from dangerous encounters with his mother's weevil-seasoned cakes to being harangued by readers who think he deliberately styles Yorkshire puddings to look like a woman's private parts.Hilarious, irreverent and mouthwatering, TOAST captures thirty years of British cooking and the recipes that we have grown up with since the days when a grilled grapefruit was the last word in dinner party chic. Everyone has gorged on cake mix, endured disastrous dinner parties, and put up with the loved one who can only ever produce burnt toast. Nigel Slater is no different. Hair-raising accounts of hotels modeled on Fawlty Towers, the mystery of the disappearing condom and the seafood cocktail, and many more, take readers behind the scenes of British cuisine to reveal the unlikely origins of our foremost cook.

Toast

Biographies & Memoirs

NIGEL SLATER

Arts & Literature

Fourth Estate

Bestselling food writer Nigel Slater turns his trademark enthusiasm for the pleasures of eating to the pleasures of drinking fresh juices. Packed full of recipes and advice, he celebrates the pleasures to be gained from the 'nectar of the gods.' 'I have always been a slave to juice, that sweet, heady nectar that dribbles from a ripe peach or melon, runs down your chin and drips onto your chest !' This is a book about the pleasure of juicing. Nigel Slater explains that once you reconcile yourself to cleaning your juicer you're hooked: the benefits of a glass of fruit and vegetable juice can be felt almost immediately. In this inspiring collection of juicing ideas, he suggests elegant combinations (pear and watercress), comforting old favourites (banana, milk &amp; honey), clean-tasting, revitalising ideas (pineapple mint shake). For Slater, the health benefits -- which are clearly explained -- are an added bonus, a 'glorious freebie'. The recipes are all there because they are delicious. Full of advice on what fruit tastes best , he also tells you what goes into the blender instead of the juicer, and whether something tastes better or is more beneficial with the skin on. With his characteristic no-nonsense approach to food, he acknowledges that cleaning the juicer is a pain and that if you come across an 'obscenely ripe and aromatic peach' then you shouldn't think of juicing it. Just eat it. But he will also convince the most ardent sceptics of the joys to be discovered in delicious combinations of fruit and vegetable juices: 'Thirst' is a glorious, mouthwatering collection of ideas from the bestselling food writer who revels in the simple pleasures of eating -- and drinking.

Thirst

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

Fourth Estate, Limited

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

'The food in THE KITCHEN DIARIESis 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.'

Harpercollins

From Nigel Slater, one of Britain's best-loved food writers and presenter of BBC One's 'Simple Suppers', comes an inspiring companion volume to the acclaimed 'Kitchen Diaries'. Here, he records the food he buys, prepares, eats and shares throughout the year.

Kitchen Diaries II

Eating for England

Cooking Education & Reference

HarperCollins Audio

The Kitchen Diaries

HarperCollins, UK

To coincide with the release of a major film adaptation, a new edition of Nigel Slater`s much-loved and acclaimed memoir.TOAST is Nigel Slater`s truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food.Whether relating his mother`s ritual burning of the toast, his father`s dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights of the day as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton) this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in sixties surburban England.His mother was a chops-and-peas sort of cook, exasperated by the highs and lows of a temperamental AGA, a finicky little son and the asthma that was to prove fatal. His father was a honey-and-crumpets man who could occasionally go off `crack` like a gun. When Nigel`s widowed father takes on a housekeeper with social aspirations and a talent in the kitchen, the following years become a heartbreaking cooking contest for his father`s affections. But as he slowly loses the battle, Nigel finds a new outlet for his culinary talents, and we witness the birth of what was to become a lifelong passion for food.Nigel`s likes and dislikes, aversions and sweet-toothed weaknesses form a fascinating and amusing backdrop to this incredibly moving and deliciously evocative memoir of childhood, adolescence and sexual awakening.

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Memoirs

UK General Books

Tender

HarperCollins, Publishers

Both volumes of Nigel Slater's beautiful Tender, available together for the very first time in this collectable boxed edition. The definitive guide to cooking with vegetables and fruit, Tender Volumes I and II reaffirm Nigel Slater's position as Britain's finest food writer. From the presenter of BBC One's Simple Cooking. Collectively nominated an incredible 21 times as Book of the Year. Limited edition. 'The greatest cookery writer of them all.' The Guardian 'No one writes more temptingly about food.' The Independent 'The year's must-have cook book.' The Observer

HardCover. Pub Date :2002-05-01 Pages: 464 Language: English Publisher: Fourth Estate From the star of BBC One's' Nigel and Adam's Farm Kitchen 'this beautiful and easy-to-use follow-up to' The Kitchen Diaries II 'contains over 600 recipe ideas and is your essential go-to for what to cook every day.Returning to the territory of Nigel's bestselling' Real Fast Food '.' Eat 'is bursting with beautifully simple and quick-to-cook recipes. in a stylish and practical flexible format that's easy to read and use anywhere. Enjoy sizzling chorizo ??with potatoes and shallots;. a sharp and fresh green soup; a Vietnamese-inspired prawn baguette; a one-pan Sunday lunch.Covering everything from quick meals to share with friends to comfort food. 'Eat' is a new. and highly innovative. classic from Nigel Slater.

Eat - The Little Book of Fast Food

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Toast

Thirst

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

Kitchen Diaries II

Eating for England

The Kitchen Diaries

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Tender

Tender

Eat - The Little Book of Fast Food