

The Christmas Chronicles
Author: Nigel Slater
Narrator: Nigel Slater
Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 10/19/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Cooking, Holidays & Seasonal
Author: Nigel Slater
Narrator: Nigel Slater
Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 10/19/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Cooking, Holidays & Seasonal
Nigel Slater is a bestselling and award-winning author, journalist and television presenter. He has been the food columnist for the for over thirty years and is one of Britain’s most highly regarded food writers. His memoir won six awards and became a film and stage production. He lives in London.
***Began my annual rereading of this Christmas journal on November 4, 2020--third time around. Delightful!*** **I've begun a re-reading of this splendid book which is an ode to winter. I had promised myself I would begin reading on November 1st, where Nigel begins, but I'm a few days late. Winter, ho......more
I knew nothing about Nigel Slater before buying this highly recommended and expensive book. The reason I decided to bite the bullet is that I love Christmas books and recipes and my season of life was evolving and I needed something new. I began this book in November of 2018 and read it bit by bit t......more
Love, love, love this book. It can't be classified as a recipe book; it's a history of winter traditions and facts, with interesting insights and memories from the author. Recipes are interspersed throughout in conjunction with an event or tradition, so that there's no disturbance to the flow of wri......more
‘A dream of a book. Slater … has produced such a hymn to winter that we’ll all be able to cope with it this year’ Diana Henry, Telegraph ‘Congratulations Nigel! The Christmas Chronicles is a magical, cosy hug of a book’ Nigella Lawson ‘I’m very, very, very excited about this book’ Ruby Tandoh 'Nigel is a bloody genius' Jamie Oliver 'The greatest cookery writer of them all' Guardian ‘The best food writers combine beauty with practicality, and no one does it more elegantly than Nigel Slater’ Jane Shilling, Daily Mail – BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'The pick of the bunch…bubbling with ideas, suggestions, hints and personal opinions that genuinely help you to make your own mind up about how and what to cook' The Times 'He's a genius' Matthew Fort, Guardian ‘Slater remains the reigning champion, a writer incapable of uninspiring sentences' Daily Express ‘No one writes more temptingly about food' Independent