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Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

By (author) Nigel Slater

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Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel’s passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer. 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 incredibly moving and deliciously evocative memoir of childhood, adolescence and sexual awakening vividly recreates daily life in sixties and seventies suburban England. ‘Wonderful, precise, extraordinary’Guardian ‘Toast connects emotions, memory and taste buds. Genius’Sunday Times ‘You read this remarkable memoir partly cringing, partly marvelling at Slater’s hallucinogenic retrieval of times past. He is the Proust of the Nesquik era’ Independent ‘Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written … Slater tells his heartbreaking story with great subtlety’ Daily Telegraph

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 17 Aug 2023
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 288
Dimensions | 196 x 141 x 30mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 340g
ISBN | 978-0-0086-3835-1
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / personal memoirs


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