Nigel Slater is a marvellously witty writer, as evidenced in his acclaimed food memoir Toast. Eating for England is Slater’s glorious portrait of Britain’s often contrary and eccentric culinary culture, where a cream tea may be celebrated as being quintessentially British but is harder to find in the high street than an all-American blueberry muffin. Rather than a narrative, the book is a smorgasbord of bite-sized ruminations on a rich stew of topics, from the Seinfeldian obscure (the difficulty of eating Toblerone) to the profound (the beauty of English churches dressed up for harvest festival) and the profane (Starbucks and McDonald’s). Far from being a gourmet snob, Slater reminds us of the existence of Murray Mints, Jaffa Cakes, Dairylea cheese, Fray Bentos and Tunnocks Teacakes.The perfect book to snack on.