‘The food in 'The Kitchen Diaries’ is simply what I eat at home. The stuff I make for myself, for friends and family, for visitors and for parties, for Sunday lunch and for snacks. These are meals I make when I stop work, or when I am having mates over or when I want to surprise, seduce or show off. This is what I cook when I'm feeling energetic, lazy, hungry or late. It is what I eat when I'm not phoning out for pizza or going for a curry. This is the food that makes up my life, both the Monday to Friday stuff and that for weekends and special occasions.' ‘Much of it is what you might call fast food, because I still believe that life is too short to spend all day at the stove, but some of it is unapologetically long, slow cooking. But without exception every single recipe in this book is a doddle to cook. A walk in the park. A piece of p***.’ ‘Fast food, slow food, big eats, little eats, quick pasta suppers, family roasts and even Christmas lunch. It is simply my stuff, what I cook and eat, every day. Nigel's food – for you.’ Nigel Slater

‘Nigel is a bloody genius.’ Jamie Oliver
‘The greatest cookery writer of them all.’ Guardian
‘Slater remains the reigning champion, a writer incapable of uninspiring sentences.' Daily Express
‘No one writes more temptingly about food.' Independent
‘My kitchen god.’ Red

Reviews
‘Vivid and touchingly personal, it is the kind of book you will dip into again and again.’ Casilda Grigg, Daily Telegraph – Books of the Year
‘Slater is a master recipe-writer.’ Guardian – Books of the Year ‘
[Slater's] evocative prose gives the impression you're already devouring that strawberry mascarpone tart.’ Financial Times – Books of the Year
‘Sensuous, evocative!So much more than just a recipe book.’ The Observer – OFM Best Book Award.
‘Slater has become the foodie Pepys.’ Elfreda Pownall, The Spectator
‘Superb!The Kitchen Diaries succeeds brilliantly!A year of highly flavoured food.’ William Leith, Guardian
‘Strikingly readable!You could cook from this book for a year and still be salivating like mad when you open the pages.’ Chris Hirst, Independent
‘Every kitchen needs a copy.’ Tom Parker Bowles, Tatler
‘A very personal collection of mouthfuls, lunches, suppers and feasts that reflects the weather, the harvest, hunger and greed over a year!A comfort book par excellence, to cook from and read at the kitchen table or curled up in bed.’ Philippa Davenport, Financial Times
‘Tinged with an exquisite (read precious) melancholia, this is part memoir, part recipe book, charting Slater's adventures with fruit and veg.’ Daily Telegraph

Author Biography

Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of bestselling books, including the classics ‘Real Fast Food’ and ‘Real Cooking’, and the award-winning ‘Appetite’. He has written a much-loved column for ‘The Observer’ for over a decade. His autobiography, ‘Toast – the story of a boy's hunger’, won six major awards, including the British Biography of the Year, the Glenfiddich Award and the Andre Simon Memorial Award. ‘The Kitchen Diaries’ won the Design and Production Award at the 2006 British Book Trade Awards.