Advantages: A great read with dishes that would be worth trying at home - with vegetables from his garden Disadvantages: Contains a number of vegetables we really don't like - asparaus, broad beans and celery to name a
Our bookshelves suggest that Nigel Slater is either god or the writer of the complete works of Shakespeare or the complete series of the Encyclopaedia Britanicca, no batter which his works have filled the bookcase and our my wife's favourite read. The on ...
Advantages: Covers lots of different vegetables Disadvantages: Not enough detail about growing
Tender by Nigel Slater is trying to be two things. Firstly, a gardening manual and secondly a cook book. It is divided into different vegetables and for each there is some advice on how to grow the vegetable and a few recipes for how to cook it. I was gi ...
Advantages: Very comprehensive treatement of a wide range of vegatable cookery. Disadvantages: Not a recipe book - more a collection of writings with recipes interspersed.
We have been urged since time immemorial never to judge a book by its cover. Not so in the case of this latest offering from Nigel Slater at Fourth Estate. It is a quite beautiful book with a slip off section in the dust jacket to reveal the stylish bindi ...
Advantages: No nonsense ingredients and no fuss over specific amounts. Disadvantages: Some cooks may feel a little unsure with his open ended style and need more guidance.
...Real Food There is something about Nigel Slater’s writing that has a drool quality about it: it is simple yet decadent, naughty but nice. In this offering, he centres his writings around a collection of key ingredients namely potatoes, chicken, sausage ...
Advantages: Full of simple and quick puddings Disadvantages: Not very adventurous recipes for the seasoned cook
Let me start by saying that Nigel Slater seems to be one of those people and have the style of cooking that you either love or hate and I am most firmly in the first camp. I love him. His tv shows have inspired many a meal on our table and are al ...
