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Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
Nigel Slater
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Description for Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
Paperback. '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.' Num Pages: 256 pages, (x integrated). BIC Classification: BM; WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
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Winner of the British Book Awards Biography of the Year
Nigel Slater’s bestselling memoir of a childhood remembered through food, featuring a new introduction from Elizabeth Day, photographs and an additional final chapter.
Whether relating his mother’s ritual burning of the toast, his father’s dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights...
Product Details
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841154718
SKU
V9781841154718
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Nigel Slater
Nigel Slater is an award-winning author, journalist and television presenter. He has been the food columnist for the Observer for over thirty years. His bestselling titles include the cookbook classics Appetite, The Kitchen Diaries and the two-volume Tender. His latest non-fiction book is A Thousand Feasts. He has made cookery programmes and documentaries for BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4. His memoir...
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'Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written…Slater tells his heartbreaking story with great subtlety. The theme of food and love is a fascinating one and I have never seen it better handled' Daily Telegraph ‘Toast is an astonishing book … [Slater] is a superb writer who can cook sublimely rather than a cook who can write. It is one of the...
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