{"product_id":"a-thousand-feasts-small-moments-of-joy-a-memoir-of-sorts","title":"A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... a Memoir of Sorts","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.\"--Provided by publisher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePromotional Headline\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ea new memoir on how to find joy in food, travel and gardening\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNIGEL SLATER is an award-winning author, journalist and television presenter. He has been the food columnist for the \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e for over thirty years. His bestselling titles include the cookbook classics \u003cem\u003eAppetite\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Kitchen Diaries\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Christmas Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e. His latest non-fiction book is A Thousand Feasts. He has made cookery programmes and documentaries for BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4. His memoir \u003cem\u003eToast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e won six major awards and became a film and stage production. His writing has won the James Beard Award, the National Book Award, the Glenfiddich Trophy, the André Simon Memorial Prize, the British Biography of the Year and the Fortnum \u0026amp; Mason Best Food Book. In 2020, he was awarded an OBE for services to cookery and literature. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eA THOUSAND FEASTS\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Slater is at his best on food and travel: his ability to evoke a culture and a mood (and his food writing by itself does both) is remarkable ... He is a purveyor of the good life, simplicity, cosiness and warmth'\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Slater's greatest talent is making the ordinary extraordinary, showing us how to revel in a ripe fig or a piece of cheese ... He may worry that he sounds trite and that his musings on diminutive pleasures are trivial, that he hasn't answered any of the big questions about the universe, but as I leave I feel grateful for Slater, the god of small things' \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'I loved this. It is a secular book of hours - thoughts and pleasures beautifully cadenced and generously placed' \u003cstrong\u003eEdmund de Waal, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hare with Amber Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Nigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing, sustaining book' \u003cstrong\u003eOlivia Laing, author of\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Garden Against Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Nigel Slater's prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour. I feel so lucky to exist in a time when Slater is writing about what it is to be alive'\u003cstrong\u003e Elizabeth Day, author of \u003cem\u003eFriendaholic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The granular detail and the passion are obviously signature Slater, but this book feels different: a sort of timeless diary, with its glimpsed, generous offerings to the tired reader, who in days like ours might forget that there's still so much beauty to be had' \u003cstrong\u003eJessie Burton, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Miniaturist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003eToast \u003c\/em\u003ebrandished food as a weapon. \u003cem\u003eFeasts \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a panacea, allowing the author the boyhood moments he was denied, whether sneaking bites of biscuit batter or fretting in Tokyo under the stern, schoolmistress glare of a \"disapproving eel lady\" ... ephemeral and enriched by pathos' \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eTHE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFrom award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Nigel Slater's prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour' \u003cstrong\u003eELIZABETH DAY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman's hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the sound of water breathing at night in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'I loved this. It is a secular book of hours - thoughts and pleasures beautifully cadenced and generously placed' \u003cstrong\u003eEdmund de Waal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Nigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing, sustaining book' \u003cstrong\u003eOlivia Laing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'His evocative, uplifting observations are a balm for life: a prose-poem for eaters and a spiritual companion for thoughtful cooks. A true and enduring joy' \u003cstrong\u003eNigella Lawson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'You can't always feel buoyant and grateful but noticing - and getting pleasure from - the seemingly insignificant is a good way to live. 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