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Nigel Slater is back....

Postby mark111757 » Sun Feb 04, 2018 12:52 am

...from the Greenock telegraph


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Fridays from 900 to 1000pm on bbc2


Enjoy

Nb-according to Nigel Slater.com, this is a three part series.

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby Renée » Sun Feb 04, 2018 10:49 am

Nigel is one of my favourites, Mark, so thank you very much for the information. I have several of his books and I just love to read them as well as following some of the recipes. Many thanks!

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby QinNortham » Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:14 am

I'm afraid I have never taken to NS and although the food in the programme was wonderful he looked, as a friend said, "unsavoury". He would certainly have put me off my nose bag had I come across him at the superb restaurant in the Bekka Valley! All the local women cooking were wearing hair nets but NS was trailing his greasy, floppy hair all over the place.

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby Pampy » Sun Feb 04, 2018 12:40 pm

Completely agree, QinNortham. As well as his unsavoury appearance (perfect description!), I also find him unctuous in the extreme.

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby QinNortham » Sun Feb 04, 2018 12:49 pm

Pampy, I will tell my friend you agree re NS. I have to say I laughed when she came up with the word "unsavoury" - absolutely perfect! Yes I find him somewhat unctuous too. I do wish Simon Hopkinson would do more TV, I find him very soothing and love his cooking.

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby Sakkarin » Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:23 pm

He definitely makes me feel uncomfortable. I watched a few minutes of the new series, and switched off when he started waxing lyrical about the onion he was dicing, in his stupid "enthuse about everything at great length" mode. Just chop the bloody onions. Unctious is a good description.

I get the feeling that all his current creations are rehashes of past dishes.

I used to like Nigella Lawson, but in recent years have lost interest as she overdoes the same unctiousness, and similarly seems to be forever retreading the same path.

I've also seen a couple of the Ottolenghi programmes that everyone has raved about. He talks with his mouth full, I switched off halfway through both programmes as it makes me feel ill.

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby Renée » Sun Feb 04, 2018 10:25 pm

Nigel is actually a friend of Nigella's. I know what you mean about Nigella being unctuous, but I did wonder if that's the way that she is normally? I don't watch her now.

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby karadekoolaid » Mon Feb 05, 2018 1:50 am

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Yep. Scruffy looking git, inne? :lol:

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby Sakkarin » Mon Feb 05, 2018 12:23 pm

Being a scruffy git myself, I can't hold that against him!

Anyway, your avatar alter ego is hardly the height of elegance, I've updated mine with a similarly scruffy critter to make yours not feel so gross...

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby QinNortham » Mon Feb 05, 2018 1:26 pm

Sakks, I can cope with scruffy but what I couldn't bare was the the very oily/ greasy hair being dribbled everywhere!

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby karadekoolaid » Mon Feb 05, 2018 3:38 pm

Hahaha, Sakks - love it!
I´ve just had a haircut, but when I returned from Mexico, I looked like this:

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby Renée » Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:17 pm

Ha ha, Sakks, I thought that you were KK for a minute!

I see Nigel as a very gentle soul, which comes through in his writings. It's real comfort reading for me as well as being about food! He doesn't care about his appearance and Jamie doesn't either.

I am also a scruffy git today and am having a bad hair day. I put a hat on when I went out to hide it!

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby Pampy » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:59 am

I don't really object to him being scruffy, it's just that to me, he looks dirty and greasy with it.

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby Renée » Sat Feb 10, 2018 4:09 pm

I watched the programme last night and really enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next one. Nigel visited the homes of people in Turkey, who had very basic equipment, but produced the most wonderful meals. He also visited a place where they made the wonderfully thin pastry. The apprenticeship was for five years.

I remembered that Nigel never wanted to appear on television, because he said that he didn't have the right image, but there was a big demand from people who had read his books.

Changing the subject slightly, James Martin is back on Saturday mornings with a cookery programme.

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby karadekoolaid » Sun Feb 11, 2018 4:58 am

I think they should bring back Fanny Craddock.... :lol:

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby Pampy » Sun Feb 11, 2018 2:17 pm

Nigel Slater hasn't always looked as unkempt as he does now - he used to be beardless with much shorter hair. Interesting that his accounts of family life in both his book (Toast) and the BBC drama don't tally with those of his step sisters, who strongly dispute his portrayal of their mother.

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby Renée » Sun Feb 11, 2018 11:30 pm

His mother died when he was very young and his father, I believe, was very domineering. He would probably resent someone trying to take the place of his mother. Young children see things differently to someone older.

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Re: Nigel Slater is back....

Postby Renée » Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:44 am

Thank you for the artlcle Pampy.

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