Roddy Nicoll · A life in meals

Eat my
Family

A life told in meals — and the people who became them.

Did we have to eat the whole family?

A lifetime of feeding people, told one plate at a time.

The masterpiece that turned out to be eight tins of Campbell’s. The half-slice of hospital toast that beat every Michelin meal. A suckling pig that wouldn’t fit the oven, and a pasta sauce that tasted — unforgivably — of hot dogs.

Funny, warm and quietly true: stories about the thing food is really for — the table, and the people you keep setting it for.

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Signed · numbered · direct from Roddy

The Hardback
First Edition

Faux-leather case, gold foil, matte jacket. Signed, numbered, and posted by the author. A keepsake, not a paperback. 25 only.

£35 posted

Paperback · on Amazon

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The trade paperback, worldwide. Same stories, lighter object — for reading on the train, lending, and leaving creased.

£11.99

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