Nigel Slater is an award-winning author, journalist and television presenter. He has been the food columnist for the Observer for over thirty years. His collection of bestselling books includes the classics Appetite and The Kitchen Diaries and the two-volume Tender. He has made cookery programmes and documentaries for BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4. His memoir Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger won six major awards and became a film and stage production. His writing has won the James Beard Award, the National Book Award, the Glenfiddich Trophy, the André Simon Memorial Prize, the British Biography of the Year and the Fortnum & Mason Best Food Book. He lives in London. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours in 2020 for services to cookery and literature.

Winner of the British Book Awards Biography of the Year ‘Toast is an astonishing book … [Slater] is a superb writer who can cook sublimely rather than a cook who can write. It is one of the great autobiographies of the past few decades’ The Times‘Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written … Slater tells his heart breaking story with great subtlety’ Daily Telegraph‘Toast connects emotions, memory and taste buds. Genius’ Sunday Times‘An ingenious and touching treat’ TLS‘Exquisitely written … You read this remarkable memoir partly cringing, partly marvelling at Slater’s hallucinogenic retrieval of times past. He is the Proust of the Nesquik era’ Independent‘Wonderful, precise, extraordinary’ Matthew Fort

Nigel Slater is an award-winning author, journalist and television presenter. He has been the food columnist for the Observer for over thirty years. His collection of bestselling books includes the classics Appetite and The Kitchen Diaries and the two-volume Tender. He has made cookery programmes and documentaries for BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4. His memoir Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger won six major awards and became a film and stage production. His writing has won the James Beard Award, the National Book Award, the Glenfiddich Trophy, the André Simon Memorial Prize, the British Biography of the Year and the Fortnum & Mason Best Food Book. He lives in London. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours in 2020 for services to cookery and literature.

Winner of the British Book Awards Biography of the Year ‘Toast is an astonishing book … [Slater] is a superb writer who can cook sublimely rather than a cook who can write. It is one of the great autobiographies of the past few decades’ The Times‘Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written … Slater tells his heart breaking story with great subtlety’ Daily Telegraph‘Toast connects emotions, memory and taste buds. Genius’ Sunday Times‘An ingenious and touching treat’ TLS‘Exquisitely written … You read this remarkable memoir partly cringing, partly marvelling at Slater’s hallucinogenic retrieval of times past. He is the Proust of the Nesquik era’ Independent‘Wonderful, precise, extraordinary’ Matthew Fort