A new edition of the hidden gem at the heart of Diana Henry's extraordinary cookbook repertoire 'Roast Figs, Sugar Snow has been in my kitchen since the day I first opened it. Here is a book that celebrates not only the ingredients of the winter shopping bag, the pumpkins and pomegranates, chestnuts and soft, sweet spices, but the heart and soul of the season. Each paragraph is a carol to what makes the cooking of the cold months something to cherish.' - Nigel Slater Coming soon from the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Diana Henry, her classic cookbook Roast Figs Sugar Snow, revisited, revised and refreshed nearly 20 years after its first publication, with a new foreword by Nigel Slater and seven new recipes. Full of comforting delights from cold-weather climes - from the ski slopes of Italy, to the coffee houses of Vienna and Budapest, the rural reaches of New England and beyond - these recipes will bring warmth to your heart as well as your home. Recipes include: -Georgian Cheese Pies -Salad of Smoked Duck with Farro, Red Chicory and Pomegranates -Pumpkin Tarts with Spinach and Gorgonzola -Vermont Baked Beans -Roast Pork with Black Pudding, Apple and Mustard Sauce -Melting Leg of Lamb with Juniper -Dublin Coddle -Snow Biscuits -Skier's Chocolate with Bugnes -Roast Figs and Plums in Vodka with Cardamom Cream
Nigel Slater Books
Nigel Slater is a British food writer, journalist, and broadcaster whose work is deeply intertwined with personal narrative. His writing often explores the profound connection between food, memory, and identity, drawing heavily on his childhood experiences and family relationships. Slater's prose is celebrated for its intimacy and unvarnished honesty, offering readers a poignant look at how sustenance shapes our lives. Through his evocative storytelling, he delves into the ways food acts as a conduit for love, loss, and self-discovery.
Following the success of 'Real Food and Appetite', this is the tenth book from Nigel Slater, the award-winning food writer. His autobiography 'Toast' sold over 250,000 copies and raised him to a new level of recognition with the public
A Cook's Book is the story of Nigel Slater's life in the kitchen. From the first jam tart Nigel made with his mum standing on a chair trying to reach the Aga, through to what he is cooking now, this is the ultimate Nigel Slater collection brimming with over 200 recipes. He writes about how his cooking has changed from discovering the best way to roast a chicken to the trick to smoky, smooth aubergine mash. He gives the tales behind the recipes and recalls the first time he ate a baguette in Paris, his love of jewel-bright Japanese pickled radishes and his initial slice of buttercream-topped chocolate cake. These are the favourite recipes Nigel Slater cooks at home every day; the heart and soul of his cooking.
A Year of Good Eating
- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
An immediate new classic from Nigel Slater. Over 250 recipes, moments and ideas for good eating, with extra-special seasonal sections for quick, weeknight eats.
This collection features beautifully crafted notes, memoirs, and stories that capture small moments of joy, showcasing the award-winning writer's unique perspective on life. Through his exquisite prose, Nigel Slater invites readers to reflect on the beauty found in everyday experiences, blending personal anecdotes with a sense of nostalgia and warmth.
Appetite
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Nigel Slater's inspirational guide to home cooking.I want you to take in the spirit of the recipes and to deviate according to your ingredients and your feelings. I urge you to break the rules. I want you to follow your appetite.'
The Kitchen Diaries II
- 532 pages
- 19 hours of reading
Includes over 250 recipes, many from his BBC TV series Dish of the Day, Simple Suppers and Simple Cooking.From Nigel Slater, presenter of Dish of the Day and one of our best-loved food writers, a beautiful and inspiring companion volume to his bestselling Kitchen Diaries.
Tender. Vol.2
- 620 pages
- 22 hours of reading
With over 300 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the fruit garden, Tender: Volume II - A cook's guide to the fruit garden is the definitive guide to cooking with fruit from the presenter of BBC One's Simple Cooking.
The 30-minute cook: The best of the world's quick cooking
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Following on from the success of Real Fast Food, this book satisfies both our appetite for quick home cooking and our imagination for food from other lands. It is aimed at those who want to recreate the food eaten on their travels, but find most recipes off-puttingly complicated, and the ready-made meals on the supermarkets bland and dull by comparison. This book contains 250 recipes and hundreds of ideas for the best fast food from many cuisines, including Indian, Thai, Chinese, Middle Eastern and Mexican.
Real Food
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Nigel Slater’s classic guide to comfort food ‘Real food means big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.’ Based on Nigel Slater's absolute favourite food, whether it be The Stickiest Ever Chicken Wings or Baked Goat's Cheese and Pesto in Filo Pastry, Smoked Mackerel Dauphinoise or the classic Bacon Butty, this classic has gone a long way in at last creating a nation of food lovers. In typically unpretentious style, Nigel finds good things to make using mass produced white bread to the finest Italian loaves, or with standard English confectionery to real chocolate made from cocoa solids. With Nigel's unerring understanding of flavours, irresistible, simple recipes, and passionate lively writing, ‘REAL FOOD’ deserves its place on everyone's kitchen shelf. Nigel Slater's book 'A Cook’s Book' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 20-12-2021.
