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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To coincide with the release of a major film adaptation, a new edition of Nigel Slater's much-loved and acclaimed memoir.
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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.
Toast features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
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Toast was written by Nigel Slater and published by 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Toast has 247 pages
