Comfort food and food nostalgia

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

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.

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

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.

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger: Signed edition

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.

Cooking: Simply and Well, for One or Many

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

A Cook’s Book

‘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 Cook’s Book: Signed edition

‘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.

Appetite

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.’

Real Food

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.’

The Kitchen Diaries

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’.

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