Toast The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Name: Toast The Story of a Boy's Hunger
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ISBN: 9781592401611

ISBN-10: 1592401619

ISBN-13: 9781592401611

Edition: 2006

Authors: Nigel Slater

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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 with an unpredictable temper. When Nigel's widowed father takes on a house-keeper with social aspirations and a talent in the kitchen, the following years become a heartbreaking cooking contest for his father's…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.10" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Nigel Slater lives in London.