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.
General
Imprint: |
Fourth Estate
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Nigel Slater
|
Dimensions: |
196 x 141 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-863835-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
General
|
LSN: |
0-00-863835-7 |
Barcode: |
9780008638351 |
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