Nigel Slater

I love ferns.

You know who's got a fern garden? It's Nigel Slater.

Do you follow him on Instagram? No.

Oh, you'd love him, don't you? And he has a fern garden outside.

lovely house.

And he's obsessed with Japan as well.

I like Nigel Slater.

Is he? Oh, yeah.

needy though, isn't it?

Can take a bit of time, but I find it quite soothing in a sort of Nigel Slater sort of way.

And I do like it, just the add a ladleful, stir, add a ladleful, stir.

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Um, and there's, there's one called Start Here by Sola Olawale, which is fantastic.

Um, but yeah, if you want something romantic, get Simon's book, or anything that Nigel Slater's ever written, I guess.

Yeah.

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I'll, like, go through a recipe book.

Like I love, um, like Nigel Slater.

So I'll go through one of his books, and I'll think, "That sounds really good.

I really wanna make it." And then I'll look, my heart sinks when there's like ...

Oh.

I'd make a cake probably, or anything by Nigel Slater.

I love Nigel Slater-

I think-

...

But, um, yes.

Genuinely, my, my favorite, like you were saying, when, when I look at my kitchen, I've got loads of cookbooks, and the, the ones that have the broken and the spines, the, the battered spines, are yours and Nigella's and Nigel Slater's.

Mm.

Now, you might think that's just a massive, massively egotistical thing.