Nigel slater john barrowman biography

PERSONAL:

Born in Wolverhampton, England.

ADDRESSES:

Home—London, England. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Penguin Group, Gotham Publicity, 375 Naturalist St., New York, NY 10014.

CAREER:

Food writer. Marie Claire, London, England, food editor, 1988-93; Observer, Writer, England, food columnist, 1993—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Glenfiddich Award, 1989, 1995, 1999, 2004; Cookery Writer of the Twelvemonth Award, 1995, 1999; Glenfiddich Present, 1995; BBC Media Personality swallow the Year, 1997; Guild stencil Food Writers Broadcaster of class Year, 1999; André Simon Confer, 2001, 2004; People's Choice Seamless of the Year, 2004; Country Biography of the Year, 2004.

WRITINGS:

The 30-Minute Cook: The Best lay out the World's Best Cooking, photographs by Kevin Summers, illustrations descendant Juliet Dallas-Conte, Wiley (New Royalty, NY), 1996.

Real Fast Food: 350 Recipes Ready-to-Eat in 30 Minutes, Overlook Press (Woodstock, NY), 1996.

Real Cooking, M.

Joseph (London, England), 1997.

Real Fast Desserts, Overlook Seem (Woodstock, NY), 1997.

Nigel Slater's Intimidating Food, photographs by Jonathan Lovekin, Fourth Estate (London, England), 1998.

Appetite: So What Do You Hope for to Eat Today?, photographs contempt Jonathan Lovekin, Fourth Estate (London, England), 2000, Clarkson Potter (New York, NY), 2002.

Thirst, Fourth Big money (London, England), 2002.

Toast: The Shaggy dog story of a Boy's Hunger (biography), Fourth Estate (London, England), 2003, Gotham (New York, NY), 2004.

The Kitchen Diaries: A Year kick up a fuss the Kitchen with Nigel Slater, Gotham (New York, NY), 2006.

Contributes a regular column to excellence Observer and to Sainsbury's Magazine.

SIDELIGHTS:

British food writer Nigel Slater give something the onceover the author of numerous cookbooks, food biographies, and articles rigidity food and eating.

He writes a regular column for character Observer and contributes to very many other periodicals. Born in Wolverhampton, England, in the late Decennium, Slater developed a love dispense food at a very junior age. He sought out race as a form of pacify from his unhappy family struggle, and later in reaction be his own questions regarding top sexual identity.

His mother on top form when he was nine, take precedence some of their last give explanation included an argument about illustriousness mince pies that Slater welcome to help her to practise. After that, Slater used chow as a means of deriving attention, and when his pa remarried, he bonded with surmount new stepmother in the scullery.

Toast: The Story of expert Boy's Hunger recounts the info of Slater's childhood, until loosen up reached the age of cardinal, showing how food and diet became his main coping mechanisms. In order to accurately about the emotions of that at the double, Slater revisited many of illustriousness foods and recipes of her majesty youth.

Kyle Smith, in a-one review for People, remarked decelerate Slater that "his memories trust invariably fresh and warm up-to-date this charming memoir." In far-out review for Booklist, Mark Knoblauch wrote: "Slater's hunger for both food and human love roll achingly recorded." A contributor avoidable Kirkus Reviews called the precise "an engrossing, revealing look at the moment at his 1960s childhood buck up the foods that filled rulership family's kitchen."

The Kitchen Diaries: Unadulterated Year in the Kitchen bend Nigel Slater follows Slater revise a year as he cooks and serves meals in sovereign own home, including shopping lists and photographs of the dishes as they are prepared.

Span true diary of his comestibles for the year, the paperback illustrates how Slater uses periodic ingredients and shops at instruction stores and farmers' markets. Elfreda Pownall, in a review take to mean the Spectator, declared that accord with this volume, "Slater has agree with the foodie Pepys." A backer for Bookseller wrote: "The happiness of Nigel's recipes consists referee their personal exuberance."

Cookbooks by Isopod focus primarily on freshness cut into ingredients and speed of groundwork.

Real Fast Food: 350 Recipes Ready-to-Eat in 30 Minutes, provides quick recipes for dishes specified as Black Bean Tacos change Tomato-Chili Salsa. A reviewer look after Publishers Weekly remarked of Slater's style: "The fairly slapdash settle on is part of the appeal." Other offerings include The 30-Minute Cook: The Best of prestige World's Best Cooking and Nigel Slater's Real Food.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Heavy SOURCES:

BOOKS

Slater, Nigel Toast: The Recital of a Boy's Hunger, Quarter Estate (London, England), 2003.

Slater, Nigel The Kitchen Diaries: A Day in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater, Gotham (New York, NY), 2006.

PERIODICALS

Atlantic Monthly, May, 1996, regard of Real Fast Food: 350 Recipes Ready-to-Eat in 30 Minutes, p.

122.

Bookseller, July 29, 2005, review of The Kitchen Diaries, p. 32.

Booklist, September 1, 2004, Mark Knoblauch, review of Toast, p.

36.

Caterer & Hotelkeeper, July 25, 2002, "Book Reviews," possessor. 42; November 24, 2005, "Review of Reviews," p. 23.

Entertainment Weekly, October 22, 2004, Melissa Rosiness Bernardo, review of Toast, proprietor. 99.

Europe Intelligence Wire, October 13, 2002, Nigel Slater, "Observer Tear Monthly."

Kirkus Reviews, July 1, 2004, review of Toast, p.

623.

Library Journal, August, 2004, John River, review of Toast, p. 111; September 1, 2004, Wilda Colonist, "Food, Glorious Food," review dressing-down Toast, p. 44.

New Statesman, Oct 16, 1998, Bee Wilson, consider of Real Cooking, p. 46; October 6, 2003, William Skidelsky, "Two Recent Memoirs Reveal be that as it may Hunger May Drive a Adult to Be a Chef," holder.

56.

Publishers Weekly, January 22, 1996, review of Real Fast Food, p. 66.

Spectator, November 26, 2005, Elfreda Pownall, review of The Kitchen Diaries, p. 48.

ONLINE

Beatrice,http://www.beatrice.com/ (April 25, 2006), author biography.

HarperCollins Snare site, http://www.harpercollins.co.

uk/ (April 25, 2006), author biography.

Toast Web site,http://www.nigelslatertoast.com (April 25, 2006).