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WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON AWARDS BEST FOOD BOOK 2018

From the BBC1 presenter and bestselling author of Eat, The Kitchen Diaries and Toast comes a new book featuring everything you need for the winter solstice.

The Christmas Chronicles is the story of Nigel Slater’s love for winter, the scent of fir and spruce, ghost stories read with a glass of sloe gin, and beeswax candles with shadows dancing on the ceiling. With recipes, decorations, fables and quick fireside suppers, Nigel guides you through the essential preparations for Christmas and the New Year, with everything you need to enjoy the winter months.

Taking you from 1 November all the way to the end of January, The Christmas Chronicles 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, The Christmas Chronicles is the only book you’ll ever need for winter.

Nigel Slater's book 'A Thousand Feasts' was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2024-09-23.

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‘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

About the Author

Nigel Slater is one of Britain’s most highly regarded food writers. His beautifully written prose, warm personality and unpretentious, easy-to-follow recipes have won him a huge following. He writes an award winning weekly column in the ‘Observer’ and edits their ‘Food Monthly’ supplement, and he is a regular contributor to Sainsbury’s ‘The Magazine’.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B071FF7L5Z
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fourth Estate
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Oct. 19 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 260.6 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 465 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008260200
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • 鶹 Rank: #456,691 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of best-selling books and presenter of BBC 1's Eating Together, Simple Cooking and Dish of the Day. He has been food columnist for The Observer for over twenty years. His books include the classics Appetite and The Kitchen Diaries and the critically acclaimed two volume Tender. His award-winning memoir Toast – the Story of a Boy's Hunger won six major awards and is now a BBC film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Freddie Highmore. His writing has won the National Book Awards, the Glenfiddich Trophy, the André Simon Memorial Prize and the British Biography of the Year. He was the winner of a Guild of Food Writers' Award for his BBC 1 series Simple Suppers.

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Customers find the writing style perfect for a winter day, saying it's beautifully described memories of winter. They describe the book as poetic, a joy to read, and exciting. Readers also appreciate the simplicity of the recipes.

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Customers find the writing style beautifully described memories of winter. They say it's a hygge read and a joy to read. Readers also say the book is perfect for a winter day in pyjamas with a tea cup in hand.

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"Nigel has for many years written books, which are a joy to read. The recipes are usually faultless. I am a fan. Definitely 5 stars...." Read more

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  • Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2021
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    This is the best book on Winter, Christmas, cooking, and just plain, common sense stuff. The recipes are exciting and unusual, but delicious. I've now tried two, (I do find I have to add more liquid to his soup and one meatball recipe), but he truly thinks outside the box. And oh yeah, there's the humor. I love his sense of humor.
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  • Reviewed in Canada on November 21, 2018
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    Ce livre s'adresse à tous les amoureux de l'hiver, de bouffe, de traditions, de Noel (pas dans le sens clinquant)... Je n'avais encore jamais lu de bouquin de Slater avant et je dois dire que ce ne sera pas la dernière fois! Je suis tombée sous le charme de son écriture toute simple mais poétique. Je suis aussi tombée sous le charme de la simplicité de ses recettes (pas dans le sens péjoratif du terme). Bref, c'est un livre parfait à lire par une journée d'hiver, en pyjama, une tasse de thé à la main... Du réconfort à l'état pur:)
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  • Reviewed in Canada on March 14, 2020
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    From now on, every late-November I'll take down this beautiful book. Slater writes about his days up to and after Christmas, the dishes he loves, winter in his lovely home in London, his ways of turning off the noise of the season--lighting candles, enjoying quiet beauty.
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  • Reviewed in Canada on July 29, 2018
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    Poetic writing style - I was a good way into the book before I realised that it was a cookbook. It is a nostalgic look at a the past, beautifully described memories of winter.
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  • Reviewed in Canada on December 14, 2017
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    Nigel has for many years written books, which are a joy to read. The recipes are usually faultless. I am a fan. Definitely 5 stars. Happy Christmas to all
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  • Reviewed in Canada on December 6, 2017
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    Not as good as his other books. I expected more of the well-nigh arousing language describing vegetables and fruit in Tender and Tender II. (A favourite party game around here is "Is it erotica or Nigel Slater?" The long winter evenings just fly by, I tell you.)

    Christmas Chronicles is far more restrained and contains didactic lectures on candle-storage.
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  • Reviewed in Canada on April 3, 2023
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    Returned, didn't like
  • Reviewed in Canada on January 10, 2022
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    Such a great book that also looks lovely on the shelf! Gorgeous colour and pictures, easy to understand instructions and some delicious recipes!

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  • Chocolate
    2.0 out of 5 stars Not a full sized book - Thick, note book size.
    Reviewed in Australia on January 26, 2024
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    Nothing against the recipes or the author, but do note, that this is not a full sized recipe book, so it is hard to use. 1 recipe reads across 3-4 pages. Not suitable at all for use in the kitchen.
  • Cintli Maíz
    2.0 out of 5 stars Mucho blof esnob
    Reviewed in Spain on December 20, 2024
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    Pues eso, mucho blof esnob. No es un libro de cocina, es como un diario de alguien que cuenta cosas que cree que son interesantes pero no lo son. No es bonito, no es estético. Mal diseño porque el libro es un tocho gordo y no lo suficientemente alto por lo que no puedes ni dejarlo abierto para seguir una receta porque se te cierra solo. Encima el señoro se hace el indignado y se burla de quienes hacen alternativas saludables o vegetales de los platos navideños a la vez que él mismo ofrece platos vegetales que sustituyen a los típicos navideños (como una especie de meatloaf pero con tubérculos o un gravy vegano de hongos) porque él es un genio y entonces él sí puede proponerlos. Pocas imágenes. Las recetas están maquetadas fatal en plan una parte de los ingredientes queda en otra página y eso no pasaría si en vez de armarlo como una novela lo hubieran diseñado con páginas más grandes; y así además no sería tan gordo porque tendría menos páginas. Tipografía sin alma. Fuente algo pequeña que dificulta la lectura. Si te gusta el diseño editorial vas a odiar este libro. Hay mejores opciones navideñas claras y sin tanta palabrería muermosa como el de River Cottage que no es solo de recetas sino que también trata decoración, ambientación, regalitos, huerto. Y además es bonito. Japi jolideis.
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    Reviewed in Spain on December 20, 2024
    Pues eso, mucho blof esnob. No es un libro de cocina, es como un diario de alguien que cuenta cosas que cree que son interesantes pero no lo son. No es bonito, no es estético. Mal diseño porque el libro es un tocho gordo y no lo suficientemente alto por lo que no puedes ni dejarlo abierto para seguir una receta porque se te cierra solo. Encima el señoro se hace el indignado y se burla de quienes hacen alternativas saludables o vegetales de los platos navideños a la vez que él mismo ofrece platos vegetales que sustituyen a los típicos navideños (como una especie de meatloaf pero con tubérculos o un gravy vegano de hongos) porque él es un genio y entonces él sí puede proponerlos. Pocas imágenes. Las recetas están maquetadas fatal en plan una parte de los ingredientes queda en otra página y eso no pasaría si en vez de armarlo como una novela lo hubieran diseñado con páginas más grandes; y así además no sería tan gordo porque tendría menos páginas. Tipografía sin alma. Fuente algo pequeña que dificulta la lectura. Si te gusta el diseño editorial vas a odiar este libro. Hay mejores opciones navideñas claras y sin tanta palabrería muermosa como el de River Cottage que no es solo de recetas sino que también trata decoración, ambientación, regalitos, huerto. Y además es bonito. Japi jolideis.
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  • flavia L.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Christmas Cozyness meets practical receipes
    Reviewed in Germany on January 2, 2023
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    It's not only a cooking book, it's a travel back in time when the winters were real. I discovered through him how to enjoy the cold weather and to pay attention to the hidden beauty around us.
    100% recommend as a gift
  • Paula Right
    5.0 out of 5 stars Divine
    Reviewed in Italy on November 29, 2017
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    Beautiful landscape pictures, a worthwhile reading for inspiration, a proustian flow of souvenirs, and very realistic as a cooking guide....
  • Fernanda Solar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Such a beautiful book
    Reviewed in Mexico on April 24, 2020
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    I have a lot of cooking books but this one is simply beautiful the author guide you through his traditions, and recipes. I love every part of it.

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