Nigel Slater Quotes

• It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

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  Impossible, Love Someone, Toasts

  Nigel Slater (2005). “Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger”, p.13, Penguin

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• It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.

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  Hands, Tongue, Impossible

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• There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

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  Art, Cooking, Too Much

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• Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

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  Dabs, Mustard

  Nigel Slater (2005). “The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater”, Gotham

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• Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

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  Careers, Hobbies, Said

  Nigel Slater (2005). “Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger”, p.11, Penguin

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• British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.

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  Sweet, Cake, Hug

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• Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

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  Real, Nice, Cooking

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• Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

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  Light, Kitchen, Size

  "Not Roquette Science". www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2005.

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• Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

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  Paris, Tomatoes

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• Food is, for me, for everybody, a very sexual thing and I think I realised that quite early on. I still cannot exaggerate how just putting a meal in front of somebody is really more of a buzz for me than anything. And I mean anything. Maybe that goes back to trying to please my dad, I don't know. It's like parenting in a way I suppose.

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  Dad, Mean, Thinking

  "While Other Boys in His Class Were Reading Shoot! Nigel Subscribed to Cordon Bleu Magazine". www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2003.

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• I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.

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  Food, Thinking, Self

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• It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

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  Quality, Intrigue, Salty

  Nigel Slater (2013). “The Kitchen Diaries”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

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• Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

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  Couple, Party, Gay

  "In This Month's OFM". www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.

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  Sweet, Father, Men

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