Nigel Slater began his first ever column for the Observer, on 26 September 1993, with the words: ‘It has been a good week for flavour. Gegliedert sind die Gerichte nach den Jahreszeiten sowie den Monaten und orientieren sich an dem Angebot der Märkte zu diesen Zeitpunkten. My only niggle, through no fault of Slater’s, is that some of the ingredients are not easy to come by in Holland.

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I place two rashers of The Ginger Pig's fat bacon over their breasts and roast them for 25 minutes at 220C/gas mark 8. The recipes themselves are not necessarily ingenious, or even original, but what is conveyed constantly is Nigel's passion for food. My only real aggravation was that the gorgeous photos weren't labeled and it wasn't always readily apparent which recipe or entry it belonged to.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. Nigel Slater and James Thompson are co-founders of the independent television production company Sloe Films. Eating for England', his collection of essays, was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 starring Celia Imrie and Julian Rhind-Tutt. I wallow in this sort of cooking, letting the meaty, mushroomy smells fill the house and tantalise us all for hours before we finally sit down to eat.

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When reading any of his books I am instantly in his garden seeing what he is speaking of, or in his kitchen smelling and tasting one of his delicious recipes. I use a mixture of apples - not that it will be any better that way but I can't make up my mind which one to use.You could stir a little tarragon or dill, finely chopped, into the soup near the end of the cooking time. Or perhaps he's retired now; as an American I forget that in some other countries people can still retire without penury. Scatter half of the raspberries over the cake, then spoon the ice cream on top, pushing it right into the corners. Cut the sausage into short lengths, about the size of a wine cork, then let them cook in a deep, heavy, ovenproof pan over a low heat. Mir gefällt der Gedanke, dass meine Einstellung zum Kochen und Essen auf der Basis von gutem Geschmack und Vergnügen beruht, nicht auf Verehrung und Ehrfurcht.

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More often, a dish is described sufficiently that a reasonably experienced cook could figure out how to make something similar -- if she could find the ingredients. Nigel Slater never disappoints and, like the previous diaries, this book is delicious from the first page to the last.It is important not to stir the chowder too much as it cooks, which would result in the fish breaking up. As the weather turns to autumn, then winter, there are half a dozen recipes that crop up time and again in this kitchen. It's also interesting to read his record of travelling and eating in Japan, not something he's done in earlier books. He lives in the Highbury area of North London, where he maintains a kitchen garden which often features in his column. As I told Shane, this is something I struggle with in planning meals - I worry that whatever I make isn't going to be enough, or that there should be more protein, etc - when perhaps if I focused on healthy, hearty, and flavorful, the rest wouldn't be as big of a deal.

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Along with both volumes of Tender, it is a book I would try and save from a fire, thus indicating both my love for it and my complete lack of common sense. This leads me to believe that unlike much of his other work, this book has not seen the pages of a newspaper with its platoon of copy editors poring over the text to clean up awkward writing. The book containsfour separate, seasonal sections of quick recipes particularly suited to mid-week evenings. This book is an essay on that principle in a way which makes the principle real for the average amateur cook who works exclusively at home.He has such a relaxed way about him, such an ordinary way of speaking to the viewer, such a no-nonsense approach to cooking, that he convinced me absolutely that 'I can do that'. The Script for Nigel Slater'sToast, the stage production written by Henry Filloux-Bennetis published by Samuel French.