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

- Nigel Slater

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

- Nigel Slater

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

- Nigel Slater

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

- Nigel Slater

British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of swe…

- Nigel Slater

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

- Nigel Slater

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

- Nigel Slater

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 …

- Nigel Slater

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.

- Nigel Slater