On Slater
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Slater - it irritates me that he treats himself as one of the immortals in the Observer Food Monthly magazine that he edits. On the other hand, his journalism keeps him in the moment, and he’s very good at reinventing the same ideas for a new day. So cook-your-own-veg was always going to be the topic for the next book (actually the next two, this announces itself as volume one). Since his plot is a tiny London garden, and since he buys most of the veg he eats, he’s aware that he’s a candidate for Pseud’s Corner, which results in some nicely self-mocking moments. But there’s a little too much smugness, and this made me laugh out loud. One thing I love about reading food magazines is being introduced to new products, and yesterday, I got this amazing coffee maker from braun coffee maker company, which makes really good coffee.