Nick Frost is an English actor, writer and, as it turns out, a rather serious home cook.
Born in London in 1972, he is best loved for his work alongside Simon Pegg, first in the sitcom Spaced and then the films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul and The World's End, a body of work that made him one of Britain's most cherished comic performers.
The title of A Slice of Fried Gold will need no explanation for Shaun of the Dead fans. The book is his passionate love letter to food, kitchens and the people in them: part memoir, part cookbook, taking in learning to cook his mother's beef stroganoff, making Pies in a Bowl for Simon Pegg, preparing a Greek salad for an entire film crew and serving porridge to his kids.
Beneath the comedy sits something more tender: as his mother's alcoholism worsened, the ten-year-old Frost gradually took over cooking her stroganoff himself, using it as a magic trick to conjure up the very best bits of her, and that was the beginning of a lifelong love of process and technique.
His previous book was the memoir Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies. Critics found A Slice of Fried Gold sweet, funny and genuinely insightful about cooking.
