Toast

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 Nigels passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer. 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 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, extraordinaryGuardian Toast connects emotions, memory and taste buds. GeniusSunday Times You read this remarkable memoir partly cringing, partly marvelling at Slaters 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