Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

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ISBN-10:

000739361X

ISBN-13:

9780007393619

Author(s): NIGEL SLATER
Edition: Film tie-in ed
Released: Jan 01, 2010
Publisher: UK General Books
Format: Paperback, 247 pages

Description:

To coincide with the release of a major film adaptation, a new edition of Nigel Slater`s much-loved and acclaimed memoir.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.

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