Nigel Slater Audiobooks

Where the Observer's food writer goes when the recipes stop: A Thousand Feasts

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Who is Nigel Slater?

Nigel Slater (born 1956) is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster, and for a generation of British readers simply the food writer: the one whose recipes actually get cooked and whose prose gets read for pleasure. His home has long been The Observer, where he has written a column for The Observer Magazine for more than a decade and serves as principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly supplement.

Before the Observer years came five as food writer for Marie Claire, and the magazine training shows in everything he does: economy, warmth and an unerring eye for the detail that makes a dish – or a memory – come alive. Few writers in any genre are so completely identified with a particular register: domestic, unhurried and quietly precise.

Nigel Slater in audiobooks

Slater in audio is comfort listening of a very high grade. A Thousand Feasts is his title in our catalogue, and the format flatters him: food writing this personal is meant to be heard at kitchen-table distance, and his unhurried, savouring prose works perfectly at spoken pace. This is not cheffy instruction but writing about eating and living, ideal for cooks pottering about the kitchen and for anyone who simply enjoys English prose done properly. Few audiobooks are so easy to recommend across generations, or so likely to send the listener straight to the stove.