Toast is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food.
In each chapter, as he takes readers on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry--rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits--we are transported.
His mother was a chops-and-peas sort of cook, exasperated by the highs and lows of a temperamental stove, a finicky little son, and the asthma that was to prove fatal.
His father was a honey-and-crumpets man.
Avery Publishing Group Toast: the story of a boy's hunger, paperback/nigel slater
