A Cook’s Book: The Essential Nigel Slater with over 200 recipes

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From the first jam tart he made with his mum standing on a chair trying to reach the Aga, through to what he’s cooking today, A Cook’s Book is the ultimate Nigel Slater collection. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. The Hogarth Press where I’m working, is in the heart of the literary world, with authors coming in all the time.From the first jam tart Nigel made with his mum standing on a chair trying to reach the Aga, through to what he is cooking now, this is the ultimate Nigel Slater collection brimming with over 200 recipes. It is just a recipe, a suggestion for something you might like to make for others, but it is what I do. A longtime food columnist in the UK and the author of fifteen previous books, he cooks food which is sometimes unmistakably British—Cumberland sausage with cheddar roasted-potato mash; smoked haddock and mussel pie—and a page or two later he’s suggesting food which is resolutely, nimbly not of any single tradition: broccoli with pumpkin seeds and bread crumbs; ground lamb with lime and cilantro. p>From the first jam tart Nigel made with his mum standing on a chair trying to reach the Aga, through to what he is cooking now, this is the ultimate Nigel Slater collection brimming with over 200 recipes. Every time Nigel Slater announces a new book, I quickly make a spot next to all his other books that sit on my bookshelf.

The best recipes are those that not only work but a delight to read, contain a useful tip or two, and guide the reader to a useful result with ease. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. To become a subscriber to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly Magazine, please visit our subscriptions page. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).In that recipe for the lamb with lime and cilantro, Slater gives us the conversation and guidance he wants from a recipe: “Add the lamb and let it color appealingly.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Watching the progress of dinner as you stir onions in a pan, at first crisp, white and pungent – you may have shed a tear - then slowly becoming translucent gold, darkening to bronze, all the time becoming softer, sweeter. Mrs Woolf, wife of the manager, is a very celebrated author and, in her own way, more important than Galsworthy. You can unsubscribe from our list at any point by changing your preferences, or contacting us directly.For younger bookworms – and nostalgic older ones too – there’s the Slightly Foxed Cubs series, in which we’ve reissued a number of classic nature and historical novels. The story of my cooking life, from the first tray of jam tarts I made with my mother when I was nine, to the food I cook now, in my kitchen at home. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.