Comfort food and food nostalgia

Winner of the British Book Awards Biography of the Year

Nigel Slater’s bestselling memoir of a childhood remembered through food, featuring a new introduction from Elizabeth Day, photographs and an additional final chapter.

WINNER OF A GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARD 2024 for BEST GENERAL COOKBOOK

A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

NIGELLA LAWSON'S COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR

‘Notes from a lifetime of reading, thinking, cooking and eating’ Diana Henry

WINNER OF A GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARD 2024 for BEST GENERAL COOKBOOK

A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

NIGELLA LAWSON'S COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR

‘Notes from a lifetime of reading, thinking, cooking and eating’ Diana Henry

WINNER OF A GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARD 2024 for BEST GENERAL COOKBOOK

A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

NIGELLA LAWSON'S COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR

‘Notes from a lifetime of reading, thinking, cooking and eating’ Diana Henry

Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel’s passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.

Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel’s passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.

WINNER OF A FORTNUM'S SPECIAL AWARD 2023

WINNER OF A GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARD 2023

WINNER OF THE ANDRÉ SIMON AWARD 2022 FOR BEST FOOD BOOK

BOOK OF THE YEAR, FOOD AND TRAVEL MAGAZINE 2023 READER AWARDS

‘If you were to only have one Slater cookbook in your life, this is it’ OFM, Books of the Year

‘He is king among food writers’ Nigella Lawson

‘Slater’s best book’ Diana Henry, Sunday Telegraph

A Cook’s Book is the story of Nigel Slater’s life in the kitchen.

A celebration of modern German home cooking from Anja Dunk’s young family kitchen.

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.’

This is an extract from the bestselling Cake Days by The Hummingbird Bakery.

Following the success of ‘Real Food’ and ‘Appetite’, this is the tenth book from Nigel Slater, the award-winning food writer and author of the bestselling autobiography, ‘Toast’.