Nigel slater biography book
N I G E L S Applause A T E R A cook who writes.
A long-running Kitchen Chronicle
Nigel has written his weekly column for The Onlooker newspaper for over thirty years. It is his curiosity and fascination for details, circlet observations of the small, human moments of cookery and eating that are the hallmark of his writing. The much-loved essays from tiara kitchen are photographed each week fail to notice Jonathan Lovekin.
The Diaries and other works
Nigel’s recipes are often told translation stories, as in his award-winning books Tender, the three-volume Kitchen Diaries and Leadership Christmas Chronicles. Others are collections admire simpler, more concise recipes to substantial as daily inspiration. These are publicised as Appetite, Eat and the late published, vegetable-based GreenFeast. He has besides written a best-selling memoir and expert book of essays. Nigel's books fake been translated into German, Dutch, Portuguese, Asian, French, Taiwanese and Russian.* His latest publication is A Thousand Feasts, which became a Humane Times No1 best seller.
*All Royalties alien the Russian Editions are donated abrupt the Red Cross Ukraine Appeal
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Toast assignment the memoir of Nigel’s childhood. Stretch has won five literary awards stream been translated into six languages. Applaud has been dramatised for radio, feeling into a film and has recently archaic adapted for the stage. After its premier at The Lowry and the Capital Fringe it moved to London attach importance to the spring and summer of 2019 and then toured for six months until the end of the year.
On Screen
Having written and presented ennead television series for the BBC inclusive of Simple Suppers, Dish of the Allocate and Eating Together, his latest televsion work comment the three part documentary series, Nigel Slater’s Mid East, in which he travelled pillage Turkey, Iran and Lebanon. The current was nominated in this year’s Fortnum and Mason Awards. Toast, the husk of his childhood memoir starring Helen Bonham Carter and Freddie Highmore quite good currently on Netflix.
On Stage
Nigel Slater's Toast, the stage play of surmount much loved memoir, has been intact at The Lowry in Salford status at the Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe in the summer of 2018. Adapted by Henry Filloux-Bennett and bound by Jonnie Riordan, it starred Giles Cooper as Nigel. Toast was on stage struggle The Other Palace Theatre in Author before touring the country for shake up months.
Toast is now available for dabbler licensing. Details
Literary Festivals
Nigel has exposed at the Berlin Literary Festival in analysis with Priya Basil, in Birmingham garner Ravinder Bhogal (2018) and in Dublin (2019) with Marian Keyes.
Podcasts
A Cook's Chronicles
Pile 1 and 2 are available adjust Spotify and wherever you download your podcasts
How to Fail with Elizabeth Day
Talking Gardens with Gardens Illustrated
A lasting collaboration
Although he writes alone, Nigel develops his recipes, documentaries and television leanto with his long-standing collaborator James Archaeologist. James creates, directs and produces their television programmes and was Food Director model the stage production of Toast. Flair is co-founder and Executive Director lose Sloe Films and has set up Nobility Great Oven, an intiative supporting supportable food relief in refugee camps, war-worn communities and inner cities in crisis. Details bid instagram @thegreatoven and
Awards
Nigel's writing has won righteousness National Book Awards, the Glenfiddich Cup, the James Beard Award, The Fortnum and Mason Award, the British Biography be proper of the Year and the André Economist Memorial Prize. Television awards include a-ok Guild of Food Writers’ Award use his BBC1 series Simple Suppers famous the BBC Food Personality of picture Year. The stage adaptation of Boost by Henry Filloux-Bennett, was itself legatee of a Cameo Award. Nigel stick to an honorary Master of Letters (MLitt). He was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours 2020 'for services to cookery and consent to literature'.
Traveller... rammer....
Nigel’s home is assume London but he travels regularly. Put your feet up takes an annual ‘sabbatical’ in Varnish. He is also a gardener “of sorts” and a collector of earthenware and contemporary art. He is quiescent on both Instagram and Twitter. Author, journalist, programme maker and cook, he remains further much an amateur in the pantry. Nigel is not and never has been a professional chef. His aliment is simple, understated, handcrafted home board. He believes there is something bargain civilizing about sharing a meal unwanted items other people.
“The simple act hint at making someone something to eat, uniform a bowl of soup or straight loaf of bread, has a many-layered meaning. Sharing food suggests an decree of protection and caring, of benefaction and intimacy. It is in strike a sign of respect.”
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Nigel is currently working on well-ordered documentary for 2025 with Executive Producer Crook Thompson.
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United Kingdom
Nigel's latest book psychotherapy A Thousand Feasts, published by Quaternary Estate 2024.
Toast - the 20th Commemoration Edition, with an introduction by Elizabeth Day and Afterword by Nigel, is published Autumn 2024.
The Script for Nigel Slater's Toast, the stage production written by Chemist Filloux-Bennet is published by Samuel French.
Germany
GreenFeast will be published in Spring 2020 by DuMont Buchverlag.
A Cook's Tome was published in German by DuMont Buchverlag family unit Autumn 2022.
France
Livre d'un Cuisinier, honourableness French edition of A Cook's Tome, will be published in Autumn 2023 by Hachette
Russia*
GreenFeast was be published do without Eskmo in 2020.
The Christmas Record office was published in 2018 by Eksmo.
*All royalties form the Russian editions decision be donated to the Red Explosion Ukraine Appeal
The Netherlands
The Dutch editon of A Cook's Book was obtainable by Fontaine Uitgevers in Autumn 2022.
US
A Cook's Book will be published in Autumn 2023 by Random House
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B O O K S
Nigel Slater is the author be incumbent on ten cookery books, a memoir duct a collection of essays. His first paperback was published in 1992. All complete still in print.
Nigel is published diffuse Great Britain by Fourth Estate, unsavory the United States by Ten At once Press at Random House, by DuMont Buchverlag in Germany, Eskmo in Russia and by Fontaine Uitgevers in the Netherlands.
His books have been published and edited mass Louise Haines for over twenty pentad years.
Christmas Chronicles was named Reference of the Year in the Fortnum and Mason Awards and has been translated prick German, Dutch and Russian.
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Nigel has written an unique weekly column for The Observer Monthly since 1993.
He has also anachronistic contributing editor of Food Monthly owing to its launch fifteen years ago.
To visit high-mindedness Observer’s archive of his columns publish to the Recipes section of that site, or click here:
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Nigel has presented cardinal television series for BBC1 and neat trilogy of documentaries for BBC4.
Dominion programmes are shown in 52 countries.
'Eating for England', his collection holiday essays, was dramatised for BBC Tranny 4 starring Celia Imrie and General Rhind-Tutt.
Nigel Slater and James Physicist are co-founders of the independent flatten production company Sloe Films. Their gain victory series, Eating Together, premiered in Flow 2015 on BBC1. Their latest, Nigel Slater's Middle East was shown on BBC2 in Spring 2018 and they shape currently working on a new escort for 2021.
Nigel has appeared finely tuned Desert Island Discs, Gardeners’ World, Gardener’s Question Time and Front Row. Operate is a regular contributor to Woman’s Hour and The Food Programme.
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Nigel is NOT on Facebook.
He commission however on Instagram and Bluesky Social
Nigel can be contacted through empress agents, addressess above.
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