Nigel Slater was born on 9 April 1956 and is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster.
16 Facts About Nigel Slater
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Nigel Slater has written a column for The Observer Magazine for over a decade and is the principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly supplement.
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Nigel Slater was born on 9 April 1956, in Wolverhampton, then in Staffordshire.
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Nigel Slater was the younger of two sons born to factory owner Cyril "Tony" Slater and housewife Kathleen Slater.
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Nigel Slater 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.
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Nigel Slater stated in his autobiography that he used food to compete with his stepmother for his father's attention.
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Nigel Slater refused to divulge her recipe, so Slater resorted to subterfuge to turn out his own version.
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Nigel 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.
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Nigel Slater became known for uncomplicated, comfort food recipes which he presented in early books such as The 30-Minute Cook and Real Cooking, as well as his memoir-like columns for The Observer which he began in 1993.
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Nigel Slater appeared as a guest castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in June 2005.
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Nigel Slater became known to a wider audience with the publication of Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger, a moving and award-winning autobiography focused on his love of food, his childhood, his family relationships and his burgeoning homosexuality.
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Nigel Slater has called it "the most intimate memoir that any food person has ever written".
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Nigel Slater has two older brothers, Adrian was born on 1944 and and John.
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Nigel Slater's parents adopted John, a neighbour's child, before Nigel Slater was born.
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Nigel Slater has two stepsisters, from whom he is estranged.
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In 2003, Nigel 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.