Nigel Slater

Famously describing himself as ‘a cook who writes’, Nigel Slater is one of Britain’s best-loved food writers and presenters. A columnist for the Observer for 26 years, he made his name sharing his passion for simple, home cooking in early, word-of-mouth bestselling books including Real Fast Food, Real Fast Puddings, The 30-Minute Cook, Real Good Food, Real Cooking and Real Food.

Slater became more widely known in the 1990’s and 2000’s hosting the Channel 4 television series Nigel Slater's Real Food Show and the BBC series A Taste of My Life and Simple Suppers and publishing cookery books including Appetite, Thirst and The Kitchen Diaries. In 2004 he published the widely acclaimed, award-winning biography, Toast, which was later adapted into a popular television series.

His other works include Tender, Volume One, Tender, Volume Two, The Kitchen Diaries II, eat: The Little Book of Fast Food, A Year of Good Eating: The Kitchen Diaries III and The Christmas Chronicles.