Nigel Slater says in the Observer Food Monthly today, "The British are not passionate cooks. We are a nation of recipe followers.".
I think he is largely right, given the fare for sale in the shops. So many ready meals and non-cooking meals, that often take as long to make as food from plain ingredients. Personally I try to take inspiration from recipes and not slavishly follow. I prefer authors who guide and hint rather than state step by step. Cookery is not a set of instructions, it is an indication of what to do given the ingredients, your tools and what you want to eat. People I like a lot are Elizabeth David, Nigel Slater, Simon Hopkinson and Richard Whittington, not you will note Delia...
Nigel Slater's autobiography is being syndicated in the Observer, the section linked above is a bit sad and somewhat bizarre, his book Toast is out in mid-september.
Nigel Slater and other cookery writers I like
1 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Nigel Slater and other cookery writers I like.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://betageek.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1703
Can you remember the first time you ate spaghetti? The cook and author Nigel Slater can, and from his experience it's clear that one way to stimulate an interest in food is to eat very badly as a child. Slater... Read More
I would like to say that Nigel Slater did have friends when he was little, regardless of what anyone else says because my dad lived on the same road as him when he lived in wolverhampton and became his friend!
I went to shool with Nigel and was a friend of his in Wolverhampton before his family moved to Wales. Both myself and my late mother Joan Butler are mentioned in his book Toast under bread and butter pudding!