TOAST EB

Nigel Slater

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780008351830, 9780008638351
• eBook ISBN: 9780007386871
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

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 Nigel's passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.

Whether relating his mother's ritual burning of the toast, his father's 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, extraordinary'Guardian

'Toast connects emotions, memory and taste buds. Genius'Sunday Times

'You read this remarkable memoir partly cringing, partly marvelling at Slater's 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

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Frontispiece
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Toast 1
• Christmas Cake
• Bread-and-Butter Pudding
• Sherry Trifle
• The Cookbook
• The Lunch Box
• Jam Tarts
• Spaghetti Bolognese
• Arctic Roll
• Pancakes
• Flapjack
• Percy Salt
• Sweets, Ices, Rock and Politics
• Rice Pudding
• Butterscotch Flavour Angel Delight
• Mashed Potato
• Tinned Ham
• Space Dust
• Bombay Duck
• Blackcurrant Pie
• Grilled Grapefruit
• Cheese and Pineapple
• Apples
• Cream Soda
• Setlers
• Sunday Roast
• Heinz Sponge Pudding
• Crisps, Ketchup and a Few Other Unmentionables
• Senior Service
• Jelly 1
• Jelly 2
• Lemon Drops
• Milk
• Peas
• Ice Cream
• Cold Lamb and Gravy Skin
• Apple Crumble
• Sherbet Fountains
• Radishes
• Tinned Fruit
• Lamb Chop
• Tapioca
• Treacle Tart
• Crumpets
• Bubblegum
• Porridge
• The Day the Gardener Came
• Hot Chocolate 1
• Hot Chocolate 2
• Milk Skin
• Jammie Dodgers
• Peach Flan
• Mince Pies 1
• Mince Pies 2
• The Night Just Before Christmas
• Marshmallows
• Fried Eggs
• Cheese on Toast
• Cheese-and-Onion Crisps
• Fray Bentos Steak & Kidney Pie
• Smoked Haddock
• Birthday Cake
• Bed
• Fairy Drops
• Tinned Raspberries
• Scrambled Egg
• American Hard Gums
• Spinach
• Smoke
• Players No. 6 (Tipped)
• Tinned Beans and Sausage
• Banana Custard
• Strawberries and Cream
• The Dead Dog
• Bourbon Biscuits
• Garibaldis
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Salade Tiède
• The Day She Darned Dad’s Socks
• Bluebird Milk Chocolate Toffees
• Victoria Sandwich
• Ham
• Boiled Ham and Parsley Sauce
• Green Beans
• ‘Go and Play’
• Lemon Meringue Pie
• Salad Cream, Mushroom Ketchup and Other Delights
• Coffee and Walnut Cake
• Candyfloss
• The Man in the Woods
• Walnut Whip 1
• The Hostess Trolley
• Walnut Whip 2
• Happy Families
• Rabbit
• Damson Jam
• Tears
• Toast 2
• The Wedding Cake
• Duckling à l’orange
• Fillet and Rump
• Prawn Cocktail
• Peach Melba
• Pickled Walnuts
• Sweeties
• The Two of Us
• Another Funeral
• Apple Pie and a Wake-up Call
• A Sniff of Basil
• Irish Stew
• Black Forest Gâteau
• Seafood Cocktail
• La Steak Diane
• Cold Roast Beef
• The Wimpy Bar
• Pommes Dauphinoise
• The Bistro
• Toast 3
• Toast – the Story of a Boy’s Book
• Another Slice
• Fish Cakes
• The Minibar
• Apple Mousse
• Toast, the Play
• Jam Tarts 2
• Pipe Smoke
• Real Food
• Plum Cake
• Mince Pies. The Last Mouthful
• Lemon Meringue. Again, and Again
• Toast on Tour
• Burning Toast
• Walnut Whips
• Toast in the Pandemic
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Also by Nigel Slater
• About the Publisher