Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger - Softcover

Slater, Nigel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592407064 ISBN 13: 9781592407064

Publisher: Avery Publishing Group, 2011

Synopsis

Toast is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as he takes readers on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry--rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits--we are transported....

His mother was a chops-and-peas sort of cook, exasperated by the highs and lows of a temperamental stove, a finicky little son, and the asthma that was to prove fatal. His father was a honey-and-crumpets man with an unpredictable temper. 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 backdrop to this exceptionally moving memoir of childhood, adolescence, and sexual awakening.

A bestseller (more than 300,000 copies sold) and award-winner in the UK, Toast is sure to delight both foodies and memoir readers on this side of the pond--especially those who made such enormous successes of Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone and Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential.

About this title

Review:

"His writing could not be more palate cleansing his acidic riffs put you in mind of Nick Hornby, Martin Amis, and Philip Larkin all at the same time.

From the Publisher:

His writing ...put you in mind of Nick Hornby, Martin Armis and Philip Larkin all at the same time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1592407064
• ISBN 13: 9781592407064
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256