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A 2011 World Book Night selection.
This is a coming of age with a difference – a culinary pilgrimage through the extraordinary childhood of award-winning food writer Nigel Salter. Moving and humorous in turn, it captures the tastes, treats and torments of daily life in '60s suburban England.
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Toast Synopsis
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.
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 incredibly moving and deliciously evocative memoir of childhood, adolescence and sexual awakening vividly recreates daily life in sixties and seventies suburban England.
'Wonderful, precise, extraordinary'Guardian
'Toast connects emotions, memory and taste buds. Genius'Sunday Times
'You read this remarkable memoir partly cringing, partly marvelling at Slater's hallucinogenic retrieval of times past. He is the Proust of the Nesquik era' Independent
'Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written … Slater tells his heartbreaking story with great subtlety' Daily Telegraph
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780008638351 |
| Publication date: |
17th August 2023 |
| Author: |
Nigel Slater |
| Publisher: |
4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
256 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Biographies & Autobiographies
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