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Nigel Slater

@nigelslater.bsky.social
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A cook who writes. Observer columnist. Author. Gardener. Books: The Kitchen Diaries, The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book, A Thousand Feasts. Instagram.com/nigelslater

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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Spring in the garden. www.instagram.com/reel/DYUm_pF...
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gardens_illustrated on Instagram: "Nigel Slater’s spring garden 🌷The well-known cook, writer and GI columnist @nigelslater is usually away in spring, but this year g…"
Nigel Slater’s spring garden 🌷The well-known cook, writer and GI columnist @nigelslater is usually away in spring, but this year got to enjoy the seasonal blooms and highlights in his London plot.When we visited recently, he showed us around and told us all about the joys of spring in his small city space, and his favourite tulips to grow.Look out for more clips from the film over the weekend, or to watch the full video now, head over to the Gardens Illustrated YouTube channel. You can read Nigel’s wonderful column in the magazine every issue too - subscribe today at the link in our bio.🎥 @room_of_light #nigelslater #smallgarden #celebritygardentour #behindthescenes
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A spot of guerrilla gardening I indulged few years ago, has resulted in huge white clouds in what was an uncared for piece of land.
A spirea bush in full bloom. Masses of white blossom against mid-green foliage. One of three that I planted in untended waste ground a few years ago.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
It’s that time again.
Pic shows 8 tulips if full bloom, together with their leaves. The red and orange tulips are Slawa, the deep red Ronaldo and the very dark purple are Queen of Night.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Through the garden gate. A small, green space, woodland planting, moss and ferns. Once the primroses have gone over, it is almost entirely green. A tiny, peaceful sanctuary.
Picture shows a totally green garden through the bars of an iron gate. A small patch of moss surrounded by woodland planting and a yew hedge.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This week’s kitchen diary is online. (Via my Instagram post.) And a recipe for grilled aubergines with creamed labne.
Grilled aubergine with creamed, herb labne on toasted sourdough. There are grilled spring onions and pine kernels in the picture too.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
A weekend of gardening and writing. Narcissus Jetfire, cheering me on.
Terracotta pots of narcissus, with yellow petals and long, orange trumpets. Planted last autumn. Out in time for Easter.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The Epimediums are out in the garden on this bright, chilly spring day. Their delicate flowers on wiry stems are jiggling in the breeze.
A patches of yellow Epimediums and the heart-shaped green leaves at the bottom of the garden. They sit amongst dried leaves from last autumn.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The fennel, with all its soft aniseed notes, has survived all winter in pots on the terrace. Along with rosemary and ‘some’ of the thymes, they are the most reliable of the herbs I grow. They never let me down.
A terracotta pot containing newly emerging fronds of fennel.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I’m usually away at this time of year, invariably missing the moment when the primroses start blooming at the bottom of the garden. It is difficult to think of a plant that carries the hope and freshness of spring the way a primrose does. Worth staying home for.
A bunch of pale yellow primroses and their green leaves against a background of dried leaves, twigs and rotted bark at the bottom of my London garden.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
For a freezing January day such as this, my sausage and beans supper. In my Kitchen Diary on the Observer App.
Two earthenware bowls, filled with a casserole of onions, herbs, pork sausages, haricot bens and broccoli. They sit on an old pine table.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
My kitchen Diary observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
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Nigel Slater’s kitchen diary: Apple and cardamom cake | The Observer
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 28/11/2025
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This week’s kitchen diary… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Kitchen Diary… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
A pile of apple and Stilton puffs sits above a bowl of yellow onion chutney and a bunch of Fragola grapes. A single cheese puff sits on brown Korean clay plate by potter Steve Harrison.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Midweek supper… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
Three halves of tomato filled with breadcrumbs, spring onion and anchovy on white plate with a crimson rim. The background is a rust-red cloth.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This month’s column. observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
A display of early autumn ingredients including large, orange tomatoes, small red ones in the vine. A bunch of beetroot, courgette and ginger.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The last of the figs - plenty in the shops though. This week’s kitchen diary… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
A pair of figs on the tree in my garden. One is ripe and purple, the other still green.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A rainy morning in Ilkley, Yorkshire. So snuggled up at Betty’s Tea Rooms with avocado toast and the awesome Elif Shafak’s There are Rivers in the Sky.
A round of sourdough toast piled high with avocado, aubergine and pea shoots at Betty’s in Ilkley.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
At last.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This week’s kitchen diary… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
A meringue with whipped cream and blackcurrant sauce. The meringue sits on a celadon plate.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This week’s column. Summer Puddings… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
A white dish sits on pink cloth. The dish is filled with summer fruits: melon, blackberries, cherries and strawberries. Scented geranium petals and leaves decorate the dish.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This week’s column. Roast summer vegetables… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
An earthenware dish filled with roast carrots, onions, aubergines and courgettes.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
This week’s column… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
A large bowl by potter Anne Matte Hjortshøj containing assorted green salad leaves surrounded by three smaller bowls of salad dressings.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Rain pattering on the kitchen skylights. Every leaf jiggling with delight.
Tomato plants and azaleas on the kitchen roof. Raindrops on the glass skylights.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
This week’s column… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
A group of tomatoes of different varieties. On a dark green tea cloth.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A warm breeze is rustling the leaves of the fig tree. There is a promise of rain. 🙏
From the drawing room window, the giant fig tree and the wisteria are hiding the view of the garden beyond. The latter gets its summer pruning next week.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Pottering in the garden today, I came across a bunch of deep pink cyclamen hiding in the undergrowth. I don’t even remember planting them.
A cluster of tiny cyclamen in deepest pink. They are surrounded by dark brown soil and fallen leaves.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
This week’s column. observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
A round tart with a crushed biscuit base, a filling of vanilla scented mascarpone and a pile of blackberries, cherries and redcurrants. It sits on a white plate with feathered crimson details on slab of honey coloured marble.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The single roses planted last winter are coming into bloom. The snow white Kew Gardens is out already and the Dunwich Rose is in bud. I wait patiently for Spinosissima Falkland, the softest pink and the most recently planted.
The new rose bed with its pale pink and soft white roses just opening. There is old wooden trellis and an oak climbing post at the rear of the picture.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
This week’s column… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
Ingredients for summer pickling in small jars and bowls. Coriander seeds, peppercorns, vinegar, dill, mustard seeds and gherkins.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Cooling down. This week’s column… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
Surrounded by home made flatbreads, a cucumber and yoghurt dip with capers and mint in a green bowl.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Caught the White Garden at Sissinghurst at its most perfect this week. A heavenly tangle of pure white flowers and cool green leaves.
The rose arbour at Sissinghurst Castle. Below the white rambling roses, a huge oil jar and crisp green hedges. Cow parsley, ox eye daises and foxgloves. White on white. Huge umbrellas of white cow parsley and daisies in the White Garden at Sissinghurst. Under a froth of white clouds, the pure white flowers at Sissinghurst. A meadow of daisies and white peas climbing up wooden frames.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This week’s kitchen diary. observer.co.uk/style/nigel-...
Ricotta and lemon ice cream in a green bowl with strawberries and their leaves.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Kitchen Diary… slow cooked vegetables for summer observer.co.uk/style/ukrain...
Two slow cooked vegetable dishes. One of courgettes and basil in an earthenware dish, the other potatoes in stock and herbs in a dark brown dish by Danish Potter Anne-Mette Hjortshøj. Both sit on a green background
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This week’s Kitchen Diary… observer.co.uk/style/ukrain...
An old celadon plate holding a pile of fried pawns and mango salsa. The background depicts black leaf buds on deep rust coloured silk.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Midweek treat… observer.co.uk/style/ukrain...
Strawberries, labne and almond brittle on a celadon dish. A strawberry flower and a scattering of mint leaves on top. A white cloth with pink flowers below.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Today, a ‘lost’ rose (never flowered, weak and sulking) has come good. The velvet petalled Munstead Wood* is alive and well, full of buds and glossy leaves. Welcome back. *now sadly retired by its breeders.
The dark burgundy petals of Munstead Wood, bred by David Austin, sits amongst its green leaves and plump buds. The deeply fragrant variety has now sadly been retired.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Green room treats at Charleston Literary Festival and I could not have been happier.
In the kitchen at Charlston House, a plate of Tunnocks Caramel wafers and Chocolate coated marshmallows as treats before I went on stage for a conversation with Edmund de Waal yesterday.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Aubergine toasts… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
Two pieces of toasted sourdough sit on an emerald green plate. They are topped with roast aubergines and garlic.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Souvenir Madame Leonie Viennot from the study window. Planted twenty-five years ago, her perfume is that of ripe peaches.
A pink climbing rose scaling the terracotta coloured bricks of the kitchen wall. Beyond is a tangle of jasmine, just coming into leaf.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This week’s diary… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
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Nigel Slater’s kitchen diary: a new twist on asparagus | The Observer
Asparagus, tarragon sauce, almond crumbs
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
A story of school dinners observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
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School dinners: looking back on 60 years of the meals you loved to loathe
Independent journalism | News, culture & style | Investigations, analysis, features, ideas, recipes, newsletters & podcasts that make sense of the world
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This week’s Kitchen Diary observer.co.uk/style/nigel-...
Creme fraiche, mozzarella and a block of Parmesan with a bunch of radishes and leaves of wild garlic sit on a scrubbed pine table.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This week’s Kitchen Diary… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
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Nigel Slater's kitchen diary: right on thyme
Baked chicken, herb butter, orzo
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Today, my weekly column moves home. My Kitchen Diary can now be found at observer.co.uk
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The Observer | News, culture and style
Independent journalism | News, culture & style | Investigations, analysis, features, ideas, recipes, newsletters & podcasts that make sense of the world
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Tulip time. ‘Brown Sugar’ standing tall, scented, like a wallflower. ‘Prinses Irene’ is glowing orange. The apricot and magenta ‘Slawa’ and the ever reliable‘Queen of Night’ coming up behind.
One of two terracotta pots that stand either side of the path. Orange, magenta and deep purple tulips are in flower above a tangle of soft green leaves.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
My last column for the Guardian website. (The Observer launches its own site this week.) www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
A lemon Swiss roll filled with lemon curd and cream, on a pale pink cloth. The sponge is decorated with blood orange and scented pelargonium petals.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Tulip Brown Sugar. Striped snail.
A striped snail (black stripes on an ivory shell) hiding not too well on the rust-orange petals of a Brown Sugar tulip. My garden, just now.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This weeks column. Good for a blustery spring day. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
A pale green and white plate holds a sausage, bean and apple hotpot. The brown juices of the hotpot are flecked with parsley. The plate rests on a blue and white tea cloth.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This week’s column… www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
A white dish on a deep red cloth. Slices of blood orange sit amongst leaves of red treviso and baked feta with thyme.
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