Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Nigel Slater


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My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window. a crease of annoyance across her forehead This is not an occasional occurrence.. My mother burns the toast as surely as the sun rises each morning.Toast is Nigel Slaters award-winning biography of a childhood remembered through food. Whether recalling his mothers surprisingly good rice pudding. his fathers bold foray into spaghetti and his dreaded Boxing Day stew . or such culinary highlights as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton). this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in 1960s suburban England.Likes and dislikes. aversions and sweet-toothed weaknesses form a fascinating backdrop to Nigel Slaters incredibly moving and deliciously evocative ...


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My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window. a crease of annoyance across her forehead This is not an occasional occurrence.. My mother burns the toast as surely as the sun rises each morning.Toast is Nigel Slaters award-winning biography of a childhood remembered through food. Whether recalling his mothers surprisingly good rice pudding. his fathers bold foray into spaghetti and his dreaded Boxing Day stew . or such culinary highlights as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton). this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in 1960s suburban England.Likes and dislikes. aversions and sweet-toothed weaknesses form a fascinating backdrop to Nigel Slaters incredibly moving and deliciously evocative ...



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Nigel Slater

Nigel Slater is a British food writer, journalist and broadcaster. He has written a column for The Observer Magazine for seventeen years and is the principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly...


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