A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy … A Memoir of Sorts by Nigel Slater

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  • Ganga108 on January 09, 2026

    Such a joy to read.

  • Hellyloves2cook on January 31, 2025

    An absolute delight to read. I adore Nigel Slaters prose. A real delight for foodies who love to travel.

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  • ISBN 10 0008670749
  • ISBN 13 9780008670740
  • Published Sep 26 2024
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 272
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Fourth Estate

Publishers Text

From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.

For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman’s hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei.

These are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the sound of water breathing at night in Japan.

This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end.

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