The Christmas Chronicles, Nigel Slater
The Christmas Chronicles, Nigel Slater
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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


Synopsis

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON AWARDS BEST FOOD BOOK 2018 From the BBC1 presenter and bestselling author of , and comes a new book featuring everything you need for the winter solstice. Read by the author, this audiobook is accompanied by a pdf of the recipes from the Christmas Chronicles. The Christmas Chronicles Taking you from 1 November all the way to the end of January, covers everything from Bonfire Night, Christmas and New Year to Epiphany. Throughout the season, Nigel offers over 100 recipes to see you through the build-up, the celebrations and the aftermath. Here are much-loved classics such as goose and turkey (and making the most of the leftovers), mincemeat and the cake; recipes to make the cold months bearable, like ribsticker bread pudding with Comté and Taleggio, salt crust potatoes with blue cheese and goat’s curd, and hot-smoked salmon, potatoes and dill; as well as bright flavours to welcome the new year, including pink grapefruit marmalade, pear and pickled radish salad and rye, linseed and treacle bread. Packed with feasts, folktales, myths and memoir and all told in Nigel’s warm and intimate signature style, is the only book you’ll ever need for winter.

About Nigel Slater

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.


Reviews

***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

Goodreads review by Cindy

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

Goodreads review by Sophie

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


Quotes

‘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