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Nigel's notes
Many thanks for all your kind emails about A Taste of My Life. Much appreciated.
To read Nigel's weekly Observer column online click here
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/nigelslater
To read Nigel's new column for the Royal Horticultural Society go to www.rhs.gov.uk
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NIGEL SLATER is a cook who writes. He has been the food columnist for The Observer for fifteen years. Author of seven cookery books, an autobiography and presenter of the BBC television series A Taste of my Life, his latest book is Eating for England, a personal portrait of the British at table.
Nigel is not a chef. His cooking is understated, straightforward stuff that is easy to accomplish, without a trace of what he affectionately calls ‘cheffery’. He is not fond of fussy cooking and prefers simple suppers made with care and thought. He believes that making something good to eat for your self or for others can lift the spirits in the way little else can. “There is something quietly civilizing about sharing a meal with other people. The simple act of making someone something to eat, even a bowl of soup or a loaf of bread, has a many-layered meaning. It suggests an act of protection and caring, of generosity and intimacy. It is in itself a sign of respect.”
He has just finished filming a fourth series of A Taste of My Life for BBC2; is working on a new cookery book for publication in 2010 and continuing his long-running weekly column for the Observer. This month Nigel also starts a new column about his kitchen garden for the Royal Horticultural Society's monthly magazine The Garden.
BOOKS
He has published ten books; four with Penguin and six with Fourth Estate. They are all in print. He is currently working on a cookery book for publication in 2009 or 2010.
Eating for England
The Kitchen Diaries
Toast – the story of a Boy’s Hunger
Thirst
Appetite
Nigel Slater’s Real Food
Real Cooking
The Thirty Minute Cook
Real Fast Puddings
Real Fast Food
Details of each title are available in the Books section of this site.
NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
Nigel has written an exclusive weekly column for The Observer Magazine since 1993. He is also a contributing editor of Food Monthly. His chatty, diary-style Sunday column has become much loved and imitated. He is currently writing a column in the The Royal Horticultural Society's magazine The Garden, and has written a cookery column for Sainsbury’s Magazine every month for fourteen years.
To visit the Observer's archive of his columns click here:
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/nigelslater
TELEVISION AND RADIO
A Taste of My Life (2006, 2007, 2008)
Nigel has presented three series of A Taste of My Life for BBC 1 and 2. The 30 prime time programmes were produced by Mark Adderley for Doghouse Films and follow the format of Nigel’s book Toast, with writers, actors and film stars talking about their lives through the medium of food. Guests have included the writer Allan Bennett, film director Richard E Grant, and actors Vanessa Redgrave, John Hurt, Timothy Spall, Miranda Richardson and Brenda Blethyn.
Nigel has appeared on Desert Island Discs, Woman’s Hour, Gardener's Question Time and has been a regular panellist on Radio 4’s Curious Cooks. He is a regular contributor to the BBC’s long-running The Food Programme.
CONTACT
Representation:
Literary Agent – Araminta Whitley at LAW (araminta@law.co.uk)
Television and Radio – Rosemary Scoular at United Agents (rscoular@unitedagents.co.uk)
Publicity:
Books - Michelle Kane at Fourth Estate (michelle.kane@harpercollins.co.uk)
Television - Liz Bunnell at Doghouse Films
(liz@doghousefilms.co.uk)
email: nigel.slater@observer.co.uk
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