This is an accepted version of this page Nigel Slater OBE (born 9 April 1956)[1][2][3] is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster.
He moved to Worcestershire as a teenager and attended The Chantry School in Martley, where he enjoyed writing essays and was one of only two boys to take cookery as an O-Level subject.
"[10] Slater gained an OND in catering at Worcester Technical College in 1976, and worked in restaurants and hotels across the UK before becoming a food writer for Marie Claire magazine in 1988.
Tender is described as a memoir, a study of fifty of our favourite vegetables, fruits and nuts and a collection of over five hundred recipes.
Slater became known to a wider audience with the publication of Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger (2003), a moving and award-winning autobiography focused on his love of food, his childhood, his family relationships (his mother died of asthma when he was nine) and his burgeoning homosexuality.
[18] Toast was published in Britain in October 2004[19] and became a best-seller after it was featured on the Richard & Judy Book Club.
Towards the end I finally get rid of these two people in my life I did not like [his father and stepmother, who had been the family's cleaning lady]—and to be honest I was really very jubilant—and thereafter all I wanted to do was cook.
[5][21] In 2018, The Lowry commissioned a stage adaptation of Toast[22] written by Henry Filloux-Bennett[23] and directed by Jonnie Riordan[24] with Sam Newton as Nigel Slater.
[26] Both productions of the show received rave reviews with critics praising it for its charm[27] and glowing nostalgia.
[33] In 2003, Slater published his autobiography Toast which is based upon his early life; the book spawned both a film and a play to which he has contributed and collaborated.