Nigel Slater is back....
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- mark111757
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Nigel Slater is back....
...from the Greenock telegraph
Fridays from 900 to 1000pm on bbc2
Enjoy
Nb-according to Nigel Slater.com, this is a three part series.
Fridays from 900 to 1000pm on bbc2
Enjoy
Nb-according to Nigel Slater.com, this is a three part series.
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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!
- QinNortham
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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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Completely agree, QinNortham. As well as his unsavoury appearance (perfect description!), I also find him unctuous in the extreme.
- QinNortham
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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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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.
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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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.
- karadekoolaid
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Yep. Scruffy looking git, inne?
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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...
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...
- QinNortham
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Sakks, I can cope with scruffy but what I couldn't bare was the the very oily/ greasy hair being dribbled everywhere!
- karadekoolaid
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Hahaha, Sakks - love it!
I´ve just had a haircut, but when I returned from Mexico, I looked like this:
I´ve just had a haircut, but when I returned from Mexico, I looked like this:
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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!
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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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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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.
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.
- karadekoolaid
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I think they should bring back Fanny Craddock....
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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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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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