Tender Volume 1, . a Cook and His Vegetable Patch - Hardcover

Slater, Nigel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007248490 ISBN 13: 9780007248490

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2009

Synopsis

Combining reminiscences from a lifetime spent working with and enjoying food, along with cultivation tips for the growing season and a brief history of each classic vegetable dish, Vegetables shows you how to use vegetables to their best potential in simple salads to indulgent suppers.Organised alphabetically, with a separate section dedicated to seasonal fruits, each garden vegetable is carefully considered in Slater's inimitable, unhurried warm prose, to give you an instinctive understanding of the unique flavours, textures and tastes of our heritage vegetables.Encouraged to use your own initiative, there are suggestions for the best complementary flavours and seasonings to guide you to spices, herbs, meats, nuts and cheese that work in unison with each vegetable to bring out its best qualities, creating imaginative, perfectly balanced dishes for the modern day.From a pumpkin laksa for a frosty night, to simple pea dishes to celebrate the spring and ancient vegetable 'peasant' dishes born straight from the land, Slater reworks and reignites the beauty and forgotten flavours of vegetable dishes to showcase British vegetables at their very best.

About this title

About the Author:

Nigel Slater is Britain's top food writer. His hugely popular columns and books have won him an enormous following for his direct, up-to-the-minute and delicious approach to food. As well as his award-winning food writing, his autobiography, Toast, was a bestseller and won four major awards. Nigel is editor of Observer Food Monthly.

Review:

'Slater applies his very evocative, sensual writing style to such topics as tomato varieties - which ones he likes and why - with impressive verve...it's an inspiring read; we are left feeling if he can do it, so could we.' Guy Dimond, Time Out, Book of the Week 'Slater's writing, always a bit exquisite, has here been burnished a stage further into prose poetry...it is nothing less than a combined spiritual testament and devotional manual: a guide to the way of St Nigel...he's genuinely original...Nothing here is second-hand, let alone insincere. And that makes Tender a book to treasure, to read and re-read, as well as to cook from...it really is that rarity, a companion for life.' David Sexton, Evening Standard 'A fine collection of honest, interesting, life-sustaining recipes that beg the reader to pick up a vegetable knife and start chopping.' Daily Telegraph 'Suffused with genuine passion and the author's natural enthusiasm for veg, growing it and cooking it...It is a timely guide as recession has sent us all back to the land, with allotment waiting lists stretching out for years.' Sunday Telegraph 'The don of them all.' Daily Mail 'This is one to treasure, beautifully written, informative and inspiring in equal measure.' Fuschia Dunlop, FT, Books of the Year 'Gorgeous recipes.' Ben Wilson, Sunday Times, Books of the Year 'A book so beautiful that you crave Slater's life and his garden.' Kate Colquhoun, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year `Brilliant as always.' Leslie Geddes Brown, Country Life Magazine, Books of the Year

About this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0007248490
• ISBN 13: 9780007248490
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592