Nigel Slater
Birth date: April 09, 1958
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bookshelves: published-2005, winter-20142015, food-glorious-food, autobiography-memoir, under-500-ratings, nonfiction Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from December 26, 2014 to January 02, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vk6kyDescription: The British have a relationship with th...
The title does not lie: this really is a culinary diary and not a cookbook. There is an entry for every day of the year: always food-related but sometimes merely about shopping for food, or what's growing in his garden, or what he bought and ate. Only occasionally are actual recipes spelled out in ...
A raw, engrossing, and sometimes uncomfortable memoir by a British chef. It covers his childhood and teenage years as though he's reliving them, recounting events with the same naivete and unconscious cruelty that he had at the time. The Britain he remembers is alien to me, with strange brand name...
This is the most depressing, boring, and shapeless memoir I have ever read. I had to force myself to finish it. In my opinion, this is no more than a too-long progression of strung-together vignettes about how miserable Slater's childhood was, with copious mentions of food and brands that no one out...
Would of liked it more if the author had not undermined himself at times. Obviously I feel pretty sorry for him and I respect the humour with which he distances himself from what was an awful childhood on the whole, but it was rather repetitive and the sum of the parts did not add up to anything spe...
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