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. 'Toast' is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. 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 remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in sixties surburban England. His mother was a chops-and-peas sort of cook, exasperated by the highs and lows of a temperamental AGA, a finicky little son and the asthma that was to prove fatal. His father was a honey-and-crumpets man who could occasionally go off 'crack' like a gun. When Nigel's widowed father takes on a housekeeper with social aspirations and a talent in the kitchen, the following years become a heartbreaking cooking contest for his father's affections. But as he slowly loses the battle, Nigel finds a new outlet for his culinary talents, and we witness the birth of what was to become a lifelong passion for food. Nigel's likes and dislikes, aversions and sweet-toothed weaknesses form a fascinating and amusing backdrop to this incredibly moving and deliciously evocative memoir of childhood, adolescence and sexual awakening.

Gold title * Nigel Slater is Britain's best food writer * Toast sold over 250k TCM across all formats * 'Real Food' was a number 1 bestseller in hardback and stayed in the top 5 for 17 weeks * All of his previous books are strong backlist sellers Competition: Tender at the Bone;Kitchen Confidential;Home Cooking;Blood, Bones & Butter;Simple;A Cook's Book;Kitchen Diaries;My Life in France;The Art of Eating;Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Ruth Reichl;Anthony Bourdain;Laurie Colwin;Gabrielle Hamilton. ;Ottolenghi;Julia Child;M.F.K. Fisher;Samin Nosrat.