A Thousand Feasts

Small Moments of Joy … a Memoir of Sorts

Nigel Slater

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Fourth Estate
30 October 2024

Ceramic arts, pottery, glass; Biography; Memoirs; National & regional cuisine; Cooking with specific gadgets; Pottery, ceramics & glass crafts

'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.

By: Nigel Slater
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 270g
ISBN: 9780008670740
ISBN 10: 0008670749
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 30 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Nigel Slater is one of Britain’s most highly regarded food writers. His beautifully written prose, warm personality and unpretentious, easy-to-follow recipes have won him a huge following. He writes an award winning weekly column in the ‘Observer’ and edits their ‘Food Monthly’ supplement, and he is a regular contributor to Sainsbury’s ‘The Magazine’.

Reviews for A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy … a Memoir of Sorts

PRAISE FOR NIGEL SLATER: 'He is king among food writers’ Nigella Lawson ‘After all these years, no one describes the simple sensuous pleasures of food better than Slater’ Bee Wilson ‘The beauty of his prose is matched to the warmth of his recipes’ Tom Parker-Bowles ‘Every time Nigel Slater announces a new book, I quickly make a spot next to all his other books that sit on my bookshelf’ Nik Sharma