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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Eat My Family — A Life, Served Fresh. Out now. Read it today on Amazon, or order a signed first edition direct — a first run of just 25 of each, posted by the author, shipping July 2026.
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Coming next · October 2026 · Free Rein Press
The table’s set again.
Eat a Second Helping
A Life, Reheated
The second helping returns to the same table with a different appetite. Where the first book told a life in meals, this one tells the bill — fatherhood watched from the far side, and the ledger of a reaching life: a sweet factory, a distillery, two marriages that didn’t survive it, and the cost of a man who was always leaving.
The comedy’s the way in, never the way out.
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Why I’m writing this down
Somebody asked me recently how many people I’ve fed. Not “cooked for” — fed. I started counting and…
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