Spotlight Magazines Spotlight on Mansfield North, Nottingham July 2015 | Page 10

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A Good Read

Eating for England – Nigel Slater

Why is Snot Green? – Glenn Murphy

Subtitled ‘The
Delights and
Eccentricities of
the British at Table’,
this is an extended
love letter to British
food over the last
forty years. If you
have fond memories
of sharing a box
of Black Magic
at Christmas
or spooning jam over school rice
pudding, then this is for you.

Want to see a nine
year old boy (or
indeed, a thirtynine year old boy)
reading? Well, buy a
copy of this book and
that’s what you’ll get.

Anyone who owns one of Nigel Slater’s
cookbooks will know that there is
as much pleasure to be had from
reading the recipes as there is from
following them. He writes about food
with passion, knowledge and honesty,
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