Interdisciplinarity (or doing what you want and getting away with it)You are probably getting the idea by now that I didn’t expect to launch myself on the world in book-length prose, by writing about allotments. The fact that I am is a source of constant confusion and amusement to me. I had thought this confused […]

Posted by on Oct 12, 2010 in book publication, Nigel Slater, publishers | 4 Comments

Growing up When I was a teenager I used to walk to school past a bakery that sold hot toast, dripping with golden butter, and it was butter too, none of your silly supposed substitutes. I grew up in a tourist resort and at least a third of my schoolfellows were the children of restaurateurs, […]