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Toast :The Story of a Boy's Hunger
Toast :The Story of a Boy's Hunger
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Published:
17 August, 2023
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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
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780008638351 |
| ISBN10 | 0008638357 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 340 g |
| Product Dimensions | 141 x 196 x 30 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format | hardback |
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Media Reviews
Winner of the British Book Awards Biography of the Year
‘Toast is an astonishing book … [Slater] is a superb writer who can cook sublimely rather than a cook who can write. It is one of the great autobiographies of the past few decades’ The Times
‘Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written … Slater tells his heart breaking story with great subtlety’ Daily Telegraph
‘Toast connects emotions, memory and taste buds. Genius’ Sunday Times
‘An ingenious and touching treat’ TLS
‘Exquisitely written … 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
‘Wonderful, precise, extraordinary’ Matthew Fort
Author's Bio
Nigel Slater is an award-winning author, journalist and television presenter. He has been the food columnist for the Observer for over thirty years. His collection of bestselling books includes the classics Appetite and The Kitchen Diaries and the two-volume Tender. He has made cookery programmes and documentaries for BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4. His memoir Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger won six major awards and became a film and stage production. His writing has won the James Beard Award, the National Book Award, the Glenfiddich Trophy, the André Simon Memorial Prize, the British Biography of the Year and the Fortnum & Mason Best Food Book. He lives in London. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours in 2020 for services to cookery and literature.