Eat – The Little Book of Fast Food. Nigel Slater

Eat – The Little Book of Fast Food

the recipes is new. Written in the style of an extended tweet, they are no dogged ‘1-2-3’ sets of instructions. The ingredients lists are next to a picture of the finished dish, both at the top of the method so you can see, at a glance, what you will need and then, in more detail, within the method. It is simple enough to get used to.

Some of the ideas in this book are updated recipes from Real Fast Food, others from my ‘midweek dinners’ column in the Sunday Observer magazine, and others still started life as tweets to my Twitter followers. Others still have been developed specially for the book by me and James Thompson over the last couple of years. Working in my kitchen at home, we have tested every recipe at least twice and cooked them for photography. They are not all thirty-minute wonders. A few are special-occasion dinners for when you have friends round, and some require minimal preparation but take a full hour or more of unattended cooking in the oven, but the bulk are neat little dinners you can have on the table in half an hour or so and probably even quicker when you have made them once or twice.

We are not chasing perfection here. This is simply a collection of suggestions for something you might like to make for dinner. Just straightforward, delicious cooking. For the times we just want to eat.

Nigel Slater

London, September 2013

www.nigelslater.com @nigelslater

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

A quick guide to what to eat by main ingredient

A note on the type