Toast

Product Description

To coincide with the release of a major film adaptation a new edition of Nigel Slaters much-loved & acclaimed memoir. TOAST is Nigel Slaters truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. Whether relating his mothers ritual burning of the toast his fathers dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights of the day as Arctic Roll & Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton) this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in sixties surburban Engl&. His mother was a chops-&-peas sort of cook exasperated by the highs & lows of a temperamental AGA a finicky little son & the asthma that was to prove fatal. His father was a honey-&-crumpets man who could occasionally go off crack like a gun. When Nigels widowed father takes on a housekeeper with social aspirations & a talent in the kitchen the following years become a heartbreaking cooking contest for his fathers affections. But as he slowly loses the battle Nigel finds a new outlet for his culinary talents & we witness the birth of what was to become a lifelong passion for food. Nigels likes & dislikes aversions & sweet-toothed weaknesses form a fascinating & amusing backdrop to this incredibly moving & deliciously evocative memoir of childhood adolescence & sexual awakening.