With over 400 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the cook's garden, Tender: Volume I - A cook and his vegetable patch, is the definitive guide to cooking with vegetables from Britain's finest food writer. In his imitable, unpretentious style Nigel Slater elevates vegetables to the starring role in his latest cook book, whether that means enjoying vegetables for their own sake or on the same plate as a piece of meat or fish. From crab cakes and crushed peas to broccoli and lamb stir-fry, luxury cauliflower cheese to a delicious broad bean salad, Tender has everything a cook could want from a recipe book.
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'I would like to think I know more now than I did before I picked up my trowel and dug that first furrow of red and white radishes. How to get the best out of a vegetable yes, but also what are the different ways to treat it in the kitchen, which seasonings will make it sing, what other ingredients is it most comfortable or most exciting with. What are the classic recipes not to be missed by a newcomer and what new ways are there which might be of interest to an old hand.'
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52 of 53 people found the following review helpful
By Schnack
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A truly exceptional effort from Mr. Slater and his publishers. The book is gorgeously bound and an absolute delight to hold and to read. Illustrated with inspiring photographs as we have come to expect from Nigel's books. But Tender Vol.1 is certainly not all style and no substance. I found The Kitchen Diaries to be a bit of a disappointment - great as a personal memoir, but not an inspiring cookbook - I think I only tried two or three recipes from it. Tender is a another thing altogether - organised into chapters by vegetable (or vegetable type), we are given tips and short diaries for growing our own, and then a section on the vegetable in the kitchen - how it is best prepared, what it goes well with, and then specific full recipes. I found it truly inspiring and am now looking forward to the delivery of my next organic veg box, rather than feeling guilty about letting some of last week's go to waste. Tender will help elevate the vegetable from an overlooked (and overcooked!) side-dish into the raison d'etre for getting the pots and pans out. I can't wait for Vol.2!
Also worth saying that although I enjoyed the accompanying TV programme Nigels Simple Suppers, this book should in no way be considered one of those hackneyed books the BBC bashes out to accompany a cookery series. This book far surpasses what is covered in the programme and stands completely on its own.
Also worth saying that although I enjoyed the accompanying TV programme Nigels Simple Suppers, this book should in no way be considered one of those hackneyed books the BBC bashes out to accompany a cookery series. This book far surpasses what is covered in the programme and stands completely on its own.
237 of 246 people found the following review helpful
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I ADORE THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK. It makes my heart melt as if it was the swede in his pasty recipe (560), or the centre of his chocolate beetroot cake (p.78), or the gratin of white cabbage, cheese and mustard (p.156) or the pumpkin scone (502).
I buy cookery books all the time. None are as useful or as beautiful as Nigel's. If I come across an ingredient in my veg-box or in the fishmonger or wherever, and I think to myself in the shop, "how could i turn this into my dinner?", the recipes and ideas that spring to mind are almost always from Nigel's books, or the folders I have full of Nigel's Observer newspaper recipes. Leafing through 'Tender' this morning with a cup of tea (I did preorder it for yesterday but I was out when the citylink van turned up) it is clear that this book will become the most well thumbed of all my collection. Cooking with a Nigel Slater book liberates you very quickly to cooking in a certain way, adapting recipes, swapping flavourings etc.
'Tender' carries on the precedent set by Kitchen Diaries for breathtakingly beautiful book-design and photography.
I have already decided what we're having for dinner, and everything is already in the house... it's on page 506.
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I buy cookery books all the time. None are as useful or as beautiful as Nigel's. If I come across an ingredient in my veg-box or in the fishmonger or wherever, and I think to myself in the shop, "how could i turn this into my dinner?", the recipes and ideas that spring to mind are almost always from Nigel's books, or the folders I have full of Nigel's Observer newspaper recipes. Leafing through 'Tender' this morning with a cup of tea (I did preorder it for yesterday but I was out when the citylink van turned up) it is clear that this book will become the most well thumbed of all my collection. Cooking with a Nigel Slater book liberates you very quickly to cooking in a certain way, adapting recipes, swapping flavourings etc.
'Tender' carries on the precedent set by Kitchen Diaries for breathtakingly beautiful book-design and photography.
I have already decided what we're having for dinner, and everything is already in the house... it's on page 506.
xx
66 of 69 people found the following review helpful
By Clementine
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What a book!
First artistically it is a joy to the eye, so even if you only keep it as a coffee table type of book, it is well worth it, and particularly so if you are a cook AND a gardener.
I too am a fan of that other great book, Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook (very highly recommended and if you haven't already done so I would say buy both as they so complement each other!).
Nigel Slater's new book brings the category to another level because, simply put, this is Nigel and his great style both in writing and in cooking: interesting quality recipes as well as a very personal way of presenting them, this time from a double angle: that of a cook and a gardener.
A great read, a great inspiration (ideas as well as tips) and a great comforter (meaning comfort food of course but also the joys of gardening with its highs and lows for every one including the author...)
To me a book addict, a homecook and a (small scale ) gardener the book fitted the bill at all levels, thumbs up from France!
If you never bought anything from Nigel Slater, buy this one, you won't regret it (but beware it will set the mark very high and/or get you hooked...).
First artistically it is a joy to the eye, so even if you only keep it as a coffee table type of book, it is well worth it, and particularly so if you are a cook AND a gardener.
I too am a fan of that other great book, Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook (very highly recommended and if you haven't already done so I would say buy both as they so complement each other!).
Nigel Slater's new book brings the category to another level because, simply put, this is Nigel and his great style both in writing and in cooking: interesting quality recipes as well as a very personal way of presenting them, this time from a double angle: that of a cook and a gardener.
A great read, a great inspiration (ideas as well as tips) and a great comforter (meaning comfort food of course but also the joys of gardening with its highs and lows for every one including the author...)
To me a book addict, a homecook and a (small scale ) gardener the book fitted the bill at all levels, thumbs up from France!
If you never bought anything from Nigel Slater, buy this one, you won't regret it (but beware it will set the mark very high and/or get you hooked...).
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Great Gift
I bought this for my wife who is a real Nigel Slater fan and has all his other books. She was delighted with it.
Published 24 days ago by Alex John
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Nigel is a Hero
I bought my son-in-law, Nigel's book on fruit last year for Christmas 2011 (Volume 2) and he loved it so much he asked for this volume for 2012. Read more
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A great read, it makes you want to get outside and start planting even if you only have a windowbox!
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Tender: Volume 1, a cook and his vegetable patch
To my mind Nigel Slater is by far the most interesting creator of wonderful food combinations I have ever read, which are also in beautiful accord with the way he has created his... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Gerda Flockinger CBE
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A good read
This book is a good read as Slater writes so beautifully. It would be a lovely present. We haven't cooked loads of the recipes but the beetroot chocolate cake is a winner!
Published 3 months ago by clairechilli
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Nigel, you made my day again
I love Nigel's recipes, there is never much fuss with cooking, the results coming from this book makes you happy. Read more
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Gorgeous
This is a lovely book. As a book. Beautiful pictures, lovely paper, great writing. Colloquial, personal, observant. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Agnes
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if you like veg this is the book for you
this book is so wonderful as it gives you receipes for each vegtable and all are really simple and very tasty, nigel slater is a truely wonderful cook
Published 3 months ago by gins412
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This was bought for my wife who intially borrowed the book from the local library.
She was so impressed with the way in which it was written & the attention to detail & the... Read more
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Just love Nigel Slater. Fantastic book , written with passion and full of simple delicious recipies.Bought for my son as a Christmas present and he loves it
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