Nigel Slater would like everyone to spend an hour a day preparing their own food, but he's realistic enough to know that for most of us this is just not going to happen and certainly not on a regular basis. In all the inspirational cookery books that he's written over the years he's set out to prove to us that we can make wonderful food without spending hours slaving over the proverbial hot stove.
I don't want to manage without the book though, so my thanks to the publishers for sending it!