Tender Volume Two
Simple Suppers Series 2, BBC 1
Toast - A Boy's Hunger, Ruby Films for BBC.
NIGEL SLATER is a cook who writes. He has been the food columnist for The Observer for seventeen years and is presenter of BBC1's Simple Suppers.Author of seven cookery books, including
Appetite and
The Kitchen Diaries, his latest book is
Tender. Over a thousand pages and five years in the making, it is published in two volumes. The first - the story of his vegetable patch - was published in 2009. The second volume - the cook's guide to the fruit garden - is due this autumn. In November 2009 Nigel
was presented with the award of Food Personality of the Year at the BBC
Food and Farming Awards by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.
Author, columnist and broadcaster, he remains very much an amateur cook. Nigel is not a chef. His food is understated, straightforward 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."
A keen gardener since childhood, he has turned much of his London garden into a thriving vegetable patch, and was recently awarded an honorary degree (Master of
Letters) from the University of Wolverhampton. NEWS Autumn 2010.
Nigel is currently completing the second volume of his latest book
Tender for publication this autumn; working on the second series of BBC 1's Simple Suppers and continuing his long-running weekly column for the Observer. A major BBC film of his autobiographical novel Toast is currently in production for showing later in the year. Simple Suppers has just been awarded the Guild of Food Writers Television Programme of the Year, and Nigel has been named as The Good Housekeeping Institute Television Cook of the Year. 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. The first part of the two-volume
Tender, was published by 4th Estate in autumn 2009. The second volume will follow in 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 is currently writing a column in the The Royal Horticultural Society's magazine The Garden, and has written for Sainsbury's Magazine every month for fifteen 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
and features relaxed, understated and easy to accomplish home cooking with a
focus on home-grown fruit and vegetables. The series was filmed in his own
garden and at local allotments.
Nigel has appeared on Desert Island Discs, Woman's Hour, 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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