A Cook‘s Chronicles: A Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Join Nigel Slater on a walk through midwinter, all the way up to Christmas Day. There’ll be recipes for some of your festive favourites and some new ideas to excite your palate in these cold months. You'll take a tour of the Christmas markets, cook some sticky treats, spice the wine, and wind your way through the season to Christmas Day.

In this episode we’ll continue our tour of Nuremberg and take in the magnificence of the city’s Christmas windows. I’ll explain my deep, life-long love of the cold months, and give you my recipe for traditional mince pies to welcome in December…

In our first episode, we’ll explore the wonderful crackle of winter – a fire in the hearth and boots crunching on frozen grass; as well as the softness – voluminous jumpers and the delicate steam from a deep bowl of soup. We’ll take a tour of Nuremberg and the Christkindlesmarkt, and I’ll talk you through my recipes for a sound malt loaf and some orange and poppy seed stollen. The perfect, sticky desserts to begin our wintery adventure.

Fourth Estate Presents A Cook’s Chronicles, a podcast, from me Nigel Slater. In this second series you’ll be joining me on the story of my life in the kitchen from the first jam tart I made with my mother standing on a chair trying to reach the aga, through to what I am cooking now. Along the way we’ll also be joined by my editor, Louise Haines, reminiscing about what first inspired me to put pen to paper. Featuring extracts from my new book, A Cook's Book, available from 14th October in Hardback, Ebook, and Audio. 

In our first episode we’ll talk exclusively to my lifelong editor, Louise Haines, about my writing from the days we first started working together, to now.

In this episode, we’ll walk the streets of Paris and discover the joy of a freshly baked baguette and delve into the depths of the perfect sourdough starter.

In this episode, we’ll discover the unparalleled joy of making the perfect tart – and how really, a serving someone a slice of tart is a true act of love.

In this episode we will fall in love with pie – pillow, potato and pastry topped, sweet and savoury.

In this episode, we’ll be discussing the unbridled joy of a meat feast – tearing tender chicken from the bone, a humble feast inspired by my grandmother’s kitchen in 1964,  a celebration of the humble meatball.

In this episode we’ll be celebrating that most simple of every day rituals – the ritual of tea.