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NIGEL SLATER is a cook who writes. He has been the food columnist for The Observer for nineteen years and is presenter of BBC1's Simple Cooking.Author of seven cookery books, including
Appetite and
The Kitchen Diaries, his latest is
the two-volume
Tender. The film of his childhood memoir
Toast, starring Freddie Highmore and Helena Bonham Carter, was shown at Christmas on BBC1 and at the Berlin, Taipei and Warsaw Film
Festivals.
Author, columnist and broadcaster, he remains very much an amateur cook. Nigel is not a chef and has no restaurant or commercial connections. His food is understated, handcrafted home cooking that is easy to accomplish and without a trace of what he affectionately calls 'celebrity cheffery'. He is not fond of fussy food 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."
NEWS WINTER 2011/12
Television: Simple Suppers Series 2 is currently being repeated on BBC1 on Saturday mornings.
Nigel is currently working on a new series for BBC1
Books: Tender Volume 2 is due out in the US in April, and will be published under the title Ripe.
Tender Vols 1 & 2 is now available in paperback as a boxed set.
Nigel is currently working on a new book for publication in the UK in Autumn 2012
Films: Toast is now available as a DVD, for more information see the television section.
Simple Suppers Series 1 and 2 and Simple Cooking are now available on DVD
•A limited edition Kitchen Towel designed by Nigel and sold in aid of the RSPCA is currently available exclusively from the kitchen department at Liberty, London.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2011 Join Nigel at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2011 Click here to view on BBC iPlayer Toast at the Berlinale "Thank you to everyone who came to see Toast at the Berlin Film Festival. We were all overwhelmed by the response and are sorry if you couldn't get a ticket. And thank you too, to everyone at the Berlinale for your generous hospitality. It was much appreciated." Front Row A rare interview with NS on Radio 4's Front Row with John Wilson is now on iplayer.Click here to view on BBC iPlayer
BOOKS
Nigel Slater is the author of ten books, including seven cookery books, an autobiography and a collection of short essays on the British at table. His cookery books tend to come rather slowly - there is often four or five years between each one. His latest is Tender, the second volume of which was published in September 2010.
Cookery
The Kitchen Diaries
Appetite
Real Food
Real Cooking
The Thirty-Minute
Cook
Real Fast Puddings
Real Fast Food
Cooking and Growing
Tender
Volume One - A Cook and His Vegetable Patch
Volume Two - A Cook's Guide to the Fruit Garden
Memoir
Toast - the story of a Boy's
Hunger
Essays
Eating for England
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 writes regularly for the The Royal Horticultural Society's magazine The Garden, and has written for Sainsbury's Magazine every month for eighteen years.
To visit the Observer's archive of his columns click here:http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/nigelslater TELEVISION AND RADIO
Nigel is presenter of the BBC1 television series Nigel
Slater's Simple Suppers. The six-part, prime-time series started in Autumn 2009
featuring relaxed, understated and easy to accomplish home cooking with a
focus on home-grown fruit and vegetables. A second series of eight programmes and two Christmas specials followed in 2010. Both series were filmed in his own
garden and at local allotments.
Nigel has appeared on Desert Island Discs, Woman's Hour, Front Row, Gardener's Question Time and has been a regular panelist on Radio 4's Curious Cooks. He is a regular contributor to the BBC's long-running The Food Programme.
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