Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger VERY FINE SIGNED FIRST EDITION with RARE WRAP ROUND BAND

Slater, Nigel

ISBN 10: 1841152897 / ISBN 13: 9781841152899

Published by Fourth Estate, 2003

About this Item

A very fine first printing in a fine unclipped dust wrapper, with just a tad of creasing to the odd extremity.This unread gift condition copy is SIGNED by the author to the title page with the ultra scarce Pan Bookshop, { sadly now extict } wrap round band present. An absolute gem! BOXED DESPATCH: OVERSEAS AIR ONLY: PLEASE DO NOT SELECT DESPATCH!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger VERY FINE SIGNED FIRST EDITION with RARE WRAP ROUND BAND
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841152897
• ISBN 13: 9781841152899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

‘Toast’ is top food writer Nigel Slater’s eat-and-tell autobiography. Detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked his passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer, this is also a catalogue of how the British have eaten over the last three decades.

‘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. His father was a honey-and-crumpets man who could occasionally go off ‘crack’ like a gun. 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 and amusing backdrop to this incredibly moving and deliciously evocative memoir of childhood, adolescence and sexual awakening.

About the Author

Nigel Slater is one of Britain’s most highly regarded food writers. His beautifully written prose, warm personality and unpretentious, easy-to-follow recipes have won him a huge following. He writes an award winning weekly column in the ‘Observer’ and edits their ‘Food Monthly’ supplement, and he is a regular contributor to Sainsbury’s ‘The Magazine’.