Warm, generous, unshowy… No wonder the cookbook became an instant classic ‘I wrote back saying thank you, but I don’t think I could write a book’: Nigel Slater. Photograph: Julian Broad/The Observer ‘I wrote back saying thank you, but I don’t think I could write a book’: Nigel Slater. Photograph: Julian Broad/The Observer Sun 14 Mar 2021 01.00 EST One day in 1992 the phone rang at Books for Cooks, the famed specialist bookshop in London’s Notting Hill. It was answered by Clarissa Dickson Wright, then still a few years off finding fame as one of the Fat Ladies. The caller, who didn’t identify himself, wanted to know whether they had copies of the newly published