A Thousand Feasts

"In the endlessly-encroaching era of AI, a beloved food writer that sits at a desk, daily, fills his fountain pen with Japanese indigo ink and writes in a paper journal, the same journal type has written in for over 20 years and has a stack of on his shelf, is nothing short of revelatory. The book reflects that - 1000 tiny morsels of food poetry, each basking in the power of language. You can literally taste his travels on your tongue - to Iran, to Norway, to Japan, to Lebanon. Inky, papery, tactile, visceral resistance of the most edible kind." - Paul Bennett

For 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. 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. This 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.