This week’s Celebrity Chef we love to hate is the esteemed, clean-cut, English chef by the name of Nigel Slater. We’re here to give him a right slating…
Okay, so Nigel Slater is one of the few celebrity chefs that we stand to watch on TV. That’s mainly because you don’t see him all too often on the box – which is a lesson for other celebrity chefs out there (that means you, Heston Blumenthal). But just because we can stand to watch him for 30 minutes, doesn’t mean we don’t have a few things to say about him.
For one, we’re always hearing about his childhood and how he had it so tough. Well, we have news for you pal, a lot of people considered their childhood tough. In Nigel’s book Toast, he revels his dislike for his stepmother, who came into his life when his biological mother passed away from asthma.
According to the book Toast, the Slater family were middle class and lived in a mock Tudor house in a better part of Wolverhampton. Not a bad life so far… His father also co-owned a factory, which made parts for Rover cars. Still sounds pretty good. However, his stepmother, Miss Potter, was ‘common’. Uh oh…
In the book, she lived in a council house, was married and had three daughters, so it sounds like awl Nigel just couldn’t cope with the change. Like we said, it happens to a lot of people.
You can still sense his ‘wealthy’ past in his cooking. While the majority of us make scrambled egg in the microwave, Nigel has previously cooked it in eggshells, topped with truffles. Now, don’t bother looking for truffles in Tesco or Superquinn. Back in 2007, a bloke by the name of Stanley Ho purchased 1.5 kgs of white truffle, hailing from Tuscany, for €250,000. So we don’t think you’ll be eating that everyday of the week.
While we do have some issues with Nigel, he’s not the worst, so we’ll let him off lightly – for now. Still, we’d prefer to just log onto Just-Eat.ie and order in our favourite food instead of trying to hunt down some truffles with a pig.
Take the hassle out of being the chef tonight – remember – Don’t Cook, JUST EAT
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