‘ 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 Slater’s award-winning biography of a childhood remembered through food. Whether recalling his mother’s surprisingly good rice pudding, his father’s bold foray into spaghetti & his dreaded Boxing Day stew, or such culinary highlights as Arctic Roll & Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton), this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in 1960s suburban Engl&.

Likes & dislikes, aversions & sweet-toothed weaknesses form a fascinating backdrop to Nigel Slater’s incredibly moving & deliciously evocative portrait of childhood, adolescence & sexual awakening.





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TOAST is top food writer Nigel Slater’s eat-&-tell autobiography. Detailing all the food, recipes & cooking that have marked his passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer. In December 2010 the BBC will bring out a film of Toast starring Helena Bonham-Carter & directed by Lee Hall, who won an oscar nomination for Billy Elliot.

Britain’s most popular cook describes his personal culinary odyssey, from dangerous encounters with his mother’s weevil-seasoned cakes to being harangued by readers who think he deliberately styles Yorkshire puddings to look like a woman’s private parts.

Read by: Nigel Slater

Runtime: 6 hours
Discs: 5 CDs






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