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Original Title:	The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater
ISBN:	0007199481 (ISBN13: 9780007199488)
Edition Language:	English

The Kitchen Diaries Hardcover | Pages: 400 pages

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Classic cookery writing from the award-winning food writer and author of bestselling autobiography, ‘Toast’.


‘The food in “The Kitchen Diaries” is simply what I eat at home. The stuff I make for myself, for friends and family, for Sunday lunch and for snacks. These are meals I make 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. 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, 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.’

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Title	:	The Kitchen Diaries
Author	:	Nigel Slater
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	2005 by Fourth Estate
Categories	:	Food and Drink. Cookbooks. Food. Cooking. Nonfiction

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This is such a lovely, atmospheric read- makes you want to run into the kitchen and start cooking ;)Edit Aug '12- The wonderful news that a second Kitchen Diaries is coming out made me revisit this one, and how I love it. It is such a practical cookbook; there are recipes that you can plan for and impress with, but it is also very useful when you have something 'lying around' (like Nigel often does).... an on the spot decision to make plum crisp, p288, turned out beautifully just last week.

Absolutely beautiful book that belongs on a shelf in my kitchen. This is one that I want to be able to sit down and read whenever I feel like it, especially for inspiration. The recipes were mouthwatering and I often have the majority of those ingredients on hand. I loved that it had bits of personality sprinkled throughout and that there were entries for almost the entirety of his year as well as the recipes mostly follow seasonal ingredients. My only real aggravation was that the gorgeous

Brilliant book, I love nigel slater recipes and programmes and when I got my allotment last year I wanted to learn more about growing things to eat. This book is amazing for that there is a diary entry for every day of the year packed with growing info and food. Love it.

Warning: this book will fill you with longing for Nigel or his boyfriend's life. Every single day is documented. After a day spent making homemade flatbread and taramasalata, he writes "In my smug haze of good house-keeping from yesterday's baking session, not to mention my arch disdain for factory produced foods, I fail to notice there is bugger all to eat in the house. At seven-thirty I dash to the corner shop, returning with a can of baked beans, a bag of frozen fries, and some beers." See,

I picked this up because I thought it might have a favorite quick curry recipe, posted by Luisa Weiss on The Wednesday Chef a while ago. It has that recipe and 1000 others that are quite intriguing. Slater's cooking is generally easy, although going around to the butcher for some lamb is a little bit more difficult in the US. But it's also a little bit unfamiliar, in part due to his creativity perhaps, or pairings and traditions that are British/European. The flavors and use of vegetables from

A lively read. Nigel Simpson writes "recipes" in the style of Elizabeth David. He does not number every little step and he is not always super precise in his measurements - "a good handful," "a glass of," and the like appearing more often than, say, "one and a half teaspoons" -- and employing lively, evocative descriptors like "enthusiastic boil" over traditional cookbookspeak. What is most interesting are the days when he confronts leftovers or seeks inspiration from what is on hand in his

I love watching Nigel Slater on TV. Like my other two favourite TV cooks he is not a professional chef. I have Kitchen Diaries 2 and 3 and am part way through the second one. I have received The Christmas Chronicles as a present and have made a start on that too. I have loved this book. The reading is what makes it, the recipes are the icing on the cake. These are books I will go back to many times.