Nigel Slater Biography
Nigel Slater is a culinary writer, journalist, and broadcaster from England. He has been writing a column for The Observer Magazine for over ten years, and he is also the lead author for the Observer Food Monthly supplement. Slater previously worked as a cuisine journalist for Marie Claire for five years.
Nigel Slater Age
Nigel is 66 years old as of April 2022. He was born on 9 April 1956 in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
Nigel Slater Education
Slater attended Woodfield Avenue School in Penn, Staffordshire. He moved to Worcestershire as a teenager and attended Chantry High School, where he excelled in essay writing and was one of only two boys to choose cooking as an O-Level subject.
Nigel Slater Parents – StepMother
Nigel is the son of factory owner Cyril “Tony” Slater and housewife Kathleen Slater (née Galleymore). His father had previously married twice. In 1965, his mother died of asthma. In 1971, his father remarried to Dorothy Perrens, who died in 1973. Slater’s parents adopted John, a neighbor’s child, before Slater was born. His two stepsisters are also estranged from him. Ann Perens, June Perrens, Adrian Slater, and John Slater are his three siblings.
Nigel Slater Channel 4 Career
Slater hosted Nigel Slater’s Real Food Show on Channel 4 in 1998. He returned to television in 2006, hosting the talk/food show A Taste of My Life on BBC One and BBC Two. In 2009, he hosted the six-part Simple Suppers series on BBC One, which was followed by a second series the following year. He appeared as a castaway guest on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in June 2005. In November 2013, he appeared alongside farmer Adam Henson on the BBC program “Nigel and Adam’s Farm Kitchen,” which was filmed on a working farm in the Cotswolds and explored all aspects of food production and preparation. His vegetable garden’s history, Two volumes of the book were published; the first, on vegetables, came out in late 2009, and the second, on fruit, came out in 2010. According to the description, Tender is a memoir, a study of fifty of our favorite fruits, vegetables, and nuts, as well as a collection of more than 500 recipes.
The 2010 film Toast, which starred Freddie Highmore as the 15-year-old Slater and Helena Bonham Carter as his stepmother, is an adaptation of Slater’s autobiographical novel. On BBC One, it has been broadcast. A stage production of Toast by Henry Filloux-Bennett, directed by Jonnie Riordan, starring Sam Newton as Nigel Slater, was commissioned by The Lowry in 2018. It was announced that it would move to the Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after a sold-out run at the Week 53 Festival. The show’s performances in both venues garnered wonderful reviews from critics, who praised it for its charm and warm nostalgia. Toast will move to The Other Palace in London, opening on April 9, 2019, it was announced in 2018. It was revealed in March 2019 that Giles Cooper would play Nigel. The show’s national UK tour was announced to start in the fall of 2019 in April.
Nigel Slater Cookbooks
- The Marie Claire Cookbook, Hamlyn
- Real Fast Food, Michael Joseph
- Real Fast Puddings, Michael Joseph
- The 30-Minute Cook, Michael Joseph
- Real Good Food, Fourth Estate
- Real Cooking, Michael Joseph
- Real Food, Fourth Estate
- Appetite, Random House of Canada
- Thirst, Fourth Estate
- The Kitchen Diaries, Fourth Estate
- Tender, Volume One, Fourth Estate
- Tender, Volume Two, Fourth Estate
- The Kitchen Diaries II, Fourth Estate
- eat: The Little Book of Fast Food, Fourth Estate
- A Year of Good Eating: The Kitchen Diaries III, Fourth Estate
- The Christmas Chronicles, Fourth Estate
- Greenfeast: Spring, Summer, Fourth Estate
- Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter, Fourth Estate
- A Cook’s Book, Fourth Estate