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Toast - The Story of a Boy's Hunger (Paperback)
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Toast - The Story of a Boy's Hunger (Paperback)
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List price R330
Loot Price R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
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The Sunday Times Bestseller, and the biggest memoir of the year,
from Britain's best loved 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
somehting 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 fasc
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