Nigel Slater is a bestselling and award- winning author, journalist and television presenter. He has been the food columnist for the Observer for over thirty years and is one of Britain’s most highly regarded food writers. His memoir Toast won six awards and became a film and stage production. In 2020, he was awarded an OBE for services to cookery and literature. He lives in London. ... Read more Read less
I always think the last Nigel Slater book is my favourite but, a bit like the Olympics, he
just keeps getting better' ELIZABETH DAY
From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written
collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.
For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen
table, soaked in a fisherman’s hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering
from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei.
These are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared.
Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet,
hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish
of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the
sound of water breathing at night in Japan.
This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us
by, is utter joy from beginning to end.
