NIGEL SLATER is an award-winning author, journalist and television presenter. He has been the food columnist for the Observer for over thirty years. His bestselling titles include the cookbook classics Appetite, The Kitchen Diaries and The Christmas Chronicles. His latest non-fiction book is A Thousand Feasts. He has made cookery programmes and documentaries for BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4. His memoir Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger 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 & Mason Best Food Book. In 2020, he was awarded an OBE for services to cookery and literature. He lives in London.