Nigel Slater© Copyright 2009. All rights reserved and enforcedNigel Slater is a food commentator in the UK. He has written for various magazines, hosted TV series on foods, and written many books about food. He lives in Highbury, near Islington in London, and is resolutely single. Though openly gay, he prefers the company of the three cats he lives with. A very chatty writer, he encourages his readers to improvise in their cooking. Nigel was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire in the late 1950s (that is all that is disclosed as far as a date.) His father was an engineer by profession, who owned a factory. His family was relatively well off, and had help that included a gardener. His mother died when Nigel was nine years old, of asthma. Upon her death, his father engaged a housekeeper, Joan, whom he eventually married. He has two brothers, Adrian, 15 years older, and John. Nigel was interested in cooking since he was a very young boy. After studying catering at Worcester Tech, he got his first job at Thornbury Castle, which paid him £8 a week plus accommodation. A year later, he got a job at The Box Tree in Ilkley, but hated the environment of the abusive kitchen there, and left to help his sister-in-law with her bread and breakfast operation in St Ives for a summer. He then went to work at The Miller Howe under John Tovey, and then moved to London, worked for a while as a waiter at the Savoy, and then at Justin de Blank café on Duke Street opposite Selfridges, just off Grosvenor Square. Around this time, he decided he didn't want to be a chef, and was more interested in home cooking than "haute cuisine,", at which point he started to get into writing. The editor, Jenny Greene, of "A la Carte" magazine was a regular customer at Justin de Blank. He volunteered to test some recipes for her in the café. One time, when the recipes didn't turn out, Jenny asked him to submit a recipe and he submitted his now-famous recipe for "apple and stilton strudel." He then got other jobs cooking food for food photographers. In 1988, he became food writer for "Marie Claire" magazine, doing captions and recipes. In the same year, hid a series for Channel 4 in England called "Nigel Slater's Real Food Show." Five years later in 1993, he started working for The Observer newspaper out of Manchester. For them, he wrote his own food column and became the food editor of their "Life" magazine. The "Marie Claire" magazine didn't like him working for The Observer as well, so he had to quit "Marie Claire." In 2003, he published the biographical book, "Toast", based on a column he wrote titled "My Life on a Plate." "Toast" covers the story of his life from the age of 8 to 18. To date, he has declined offers to write the followup, because many of the people that would be involved were still alive, but he has not ruled it out entirely. In 2006, he hosted the BBC1 television series, "A Taste of My Life." Much of the photography accompanying his columns in the Observer, and in his books, is done by his long-time food photographer partner, Jonathan Lovekin. Books
Television1998 -- "Nigel Slater's Real Food Show." Channel 4.2006 "A Taste of My Life." BBC1
BBC Radio 4. Nigel Slater. Woman's Hour, Wednesday 26 October 2005, 10:00 am to 11:00 am. Betts, Kate. Stars & Stripes (Nigel Slater). In Food & Wine Magazine. American Express Publishing. September 2002. While other boys in his class were reading Shoot! Nigel subscribed to Cordon Bleu magazine. Interview with Nigel Slater. Manchester: Observer Food Monthly. Sunday, 14 September 2003. Wroe, Nicholas. Life's too short to stuff a mushroom (Nigel Slater). London: The Guardian. 6 May 2000. Other entries for: BiographiesAgnes Bertha Marshall, Ainsley Harriott, Alessandro Filippini, Alexis Benoit Soyer, Anthimus, Antony Worrall Thompson, Archestratus, Arnold Reuben, Athenaeus, Bartolomeo Scappi, Billy Reed, Catherine de Medici, Catherine Emily Callbeck Dalgairns, César Ritz, Charles Elmé Francatelli, Charles E. Hires, Charles Mason Hovey, Charles Ranhofer, Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Clementine Paddleford, Constance Spry, Delia Smith, Delmonico's Restaurant, Delmonico Potatoes, Dione Lucas, Egon Ronay, Elena Molokhovets, Eliza Acton, Eliza Leslie, Elizabeth Coleman White, Elizabeth Craig, Elizabeth David, Elizabeth Raffald, Fannie Merritt Farmer, Fanny Cradock, Francois Pierre de la Varenne, Francois Vatel, Gary Rhodes, Georges-Auguste Escoffier, Gino d'Acampo, Gordon Ramsay, Graham Kerr, Grimod de la Reynière, Harold McGee, Harumi Kurihara, Henry John Heinz, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Irma Rombauer, Isabella Mary Beeton, James John Howard Gregory, Jane Grigson, Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Jean-Étienne de Boré, Jean-Pierre Clause, Jean Paré, Jennifer Paterson, John Cadbury, John Lawson Johnston, John Tradescant, Joseph Campbell, Josephine Garis Cochrane, Julia Child, La Maison Dorée, Laurie Colwin, Louis Eustache Ude, Louis Fauchère, Luther Burbank, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Madhur Jaffrey, Marcella Hazan, Margaret Costa, Marguerite Patten, Maria Parloa, Marie-Antoine Carême, Mars Family, Mary Randolph, Milton S. Hershey, Mithaecus, Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson, Paul Blangé, Philip Harben, Pierre Blot, Pillsbury Bake-Offs, Platina, Raymond Calvel, Rufus Estes, Taillevent, Tate & Lyle, Thomas Laxton, Two Fat Ladies, Walter Tennyson Swingle, White Castle, William Cobbett |
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