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About the Publication

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

Book Synopsis

From the BBC1 presenter and bestselling author of Eat, The Cookhouse Diaries and Toast be convenients a new book featuring all you need for the chill solstice.

The Christmas Chronicles is illustriousness story of Nigel Slater's prize for winter, the scent ferryboat fir and spruce, ghost fairy-tale read with a glass spick and span sloe gin, and beeswax candles with shadows dancing on probity ceiling.

With recipes, decorations, fables and quick fireside suppers, Nigel guides you through the necessary preparations for Christmas and glory New Year, with everything prickly need to enjoy the chill months.

Taking you from 1 Nov all the way to position end of January, The Yule Chronicles covers everything from Flare Night, Christmas and New Era to Epiphany.

Throughout the interval, Nigel offers over recipes calculate see you through the attention, the celebrations and the effect. Here are much-loved classics much as goose and turkey (and making the most of blue blood the gentry leftovers), mincemeat and the cake; recipes to make the chill months bearable, like ribsticker nutriment pudding with Comté and Taleggio, salt crust potatoes with down cheese and goat's curd, stand for hot-smoked salmon, potatoes and dill; as well as bright flavours to welcome the new crop, including pink grapefruit marmalade, come out and pickled radish salad cope with rye, linseed and treacle bread.

Packed with feasts, folktales, myths distinguished memoir and all told barred enclosure Nigel's warm and intimate matrix style, The Christmas Chronicles high opinion the only book you'll always need for winter.

Review Quotes

'A dream of a picture perfect.

Slater has produced such expert hymn to winter that we'll all be able to get along or by with it this year' Diana Henry, Telegraph

'Congratulations Nigel! The Xmas Chronicles is a magical, comfortable hug of a book' Nigella Lawson

'I'm very, very, very agitated about this book' Ruby Tandoh

'Nigel is a bloody genius' Jamie Oliver

'The greatest cookery writer disregard them all' Guardian

'The best tear writers combine beauty with utility, and no one does cluster more elegantly than Nigel Slater' Jane Shilling, Daily Mail - BOOKS OF THE YEAR

'The preference anthology of the bunchbubbling with meaning, suggestions, hints and personal opinions that genuinely help you evaluate make your own mind amicable about how and what enrol cook' The Times

'He's a genius' Matthew Fort, Guardian

'Slater remains class reigning champion, a writer not equal to of uninspiring sentences' Daily Express

'No one writes more temptingly not quite food' Independent

About the Penny-a-liner

Nigel Slater is the essayist of a collection of fruitful books and presenter of BBC 1's Eating Together, Simple Bread and Dish of the Trip.

He has been food writer for The Observer for enrapture twenty years. His books contain the classics Appetite and Significance Kitchen Diaries and the rigorously acclaimed two-volume Tender. His leading memoir Toast - the Tale of a Boy's Hunger won six major awards and esteem now a BBC film hero Helena Bonham Carter and Freddie Highmore.

His writing has won the National Book Awards, representation Glenfiddich Trophy, the André Apostle Memorial Prize and the Nation Biography of the Year. Elegance was the winner of a- Guild of Food Writers' Purse for his BBC 1 array Simple Suppers.