From the BBC1 presenter and bestselling author of Eat The Kitchen Diaries and Toast comes a
new book featuring everything you need for the winter solstice. The Christmas Chronicles is
the story of Nigel Slater's love for winter the scent of fir and spruce ghost stories read
with a glass of sloe gin and beeswax candles with shadows dancing on the ceiling. With recipes
decorations fables and quick fireside suppers Nigel guides you through the essential
preparations for Christmas and the New Year with everything you need to enjoy the winter
months. Taking you from 1 November all the way to the end of January The Christmas Chronicles
covers everything from Bonfire Night Christmas and New Year to Epiphany. Throughout the season
Nigel offers over 100 recipes to see you through the build-up the celebrations and the
aftermath. Here are much-loved classics such as goose and turkey (and making the most of the
leftovers) mincemeat and the cake recipes to make the cold months bearable like ribsticker
bread pudding with Comté and Taleggio salt crust potatoes with blue cheese and goat's curd
and hot-smoked salmon potatoes and dill as well as bright flavours to welcome the new year
including pink grapefruit marmalade pear and pickled radish salad and rye linseed and treacle
bread. Packed with feasts folktales myths and memoir and all told in Nigel's warm and
intimate signature style The Christmas Chronicles is the only book you'll ever need for
winter.
