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MEDIA REVIEWS
Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater,twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir,detailing all the food,recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel's passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.
Toast is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. Whether relating his mother's ritual burning of the toast,his father's dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights of the day as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton) this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in sixties surburban England.
His mother was a chops-and-peas sort of cook,exasperated by the highs and lows of a temperamental AGA,a finicky little son and the asthma that was to prove fatal. His father was a honey-and-crumpets man who could occasionally go off'crack'like a gun. When Nigel's widowed father takes on a housekeeper with social aspirations and a talent in the kitchen,the following years become a heartbreaking cooking contest for his father's affections. But as he slowly loses the battle,Nigel finds a new outlet for his culinary talents,and we witness the birth of what was to become a lifelong passion for food.
Nigel's likes and dislikes,aversions and sweet-toothed weaknesses form a fascinating and amusing backdrop to this incredibly moving and deliciously evocative memoir of childhood,adolescence and sexual awakening.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008664497Number of pages: 288Weight: 270 gDimensions: 196 x 141 x 21 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Acutely observed,poignant and beautifully written...Slater tells his heartbreaking story with great subtlety. The theme of food and love is a fascinating one and I have never seen it better handled.'- The Daily Telegraph
'Few,if any,food writers engender such affection as Nigel Slater. He evokes time,people and place with...unmatched sensuous energy...Extraordinary.'- The Observer
Nigel Slater
Famously describing himself as'a cook who writes',Nigel Slater is one of Britain's best-loved food writers and presenters. A columnist for the Observer for 26 years,his bestselling books include Real Fast Food,The 30-Minute Cook,Tender,Volume One,The Christmas Chronicles and the widely acclaimed,award-winning biography,Toast.
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