Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger |
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Nigel Slater
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Pages: 256 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1841154717
Pub: Harper Perennial
Pub date: 2004-04-16
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1935
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Warm as Toast (0/0 people found this helpful)
This is an easy read but very readable nonetheless. It's a stroll through Nigel Slater's early life intermingled with recipes. Highly recommended for those who like their home comforts and their reading like the book's title warm and satisfying. The ending demands we get the next chapter of this popular man's very interesting life soon please.
Rob`s review (0/0 people found this helpful)
A really good read, i will never look at Nigel slater on the tv without thinking about what he has written.Even if you do not like Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hungercooking or cook books, you will enjoy this book.If you are of a certain age you will really enjoy what is written here!!!!!!!!!!!!
Slater made me hunger for more. (0/0 people found this helpful)
This is a great book: gentle and humourous with a touch of naughtiness. I loved every word and was sorry to finish it as it appealed directly to my own experiences of food as I was growing up in the fifties - it definitiely made me hungry for more Slater.
a lonely child (0/0 people found this helpful)
Being Dutch I am not familiair with a lot of the sweets and many other products Nigel Slater mentions in this book. Never mind, what a wonderful book this is! I discovered Nigel Slater only recently,we kind of met through "Simple Suppers". Intrigued, I wanted to know more, as I love the approach he takes to food and cooking. The internet was helpful of course, and made me even more curious.
To me the book was a delight, a feast of recognition despite the obvious differences. Beautifully written, fascinating and very moving too. What a lonely child he was. This is not just a story about a boy and his likes and dislikes, it also tells how formative childhood is.
one of the best (0/0 people found this helpful)
this is without doubt one of the best books I have ever read.Laugh out loud funny and heartbreakingly sad,I lived every page and couldn't put it down.
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