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Toast: The Story Of A Boy's Hunger (SCARCE PAPERBACK FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, NIGEL SLATER)
by Slater, Nigel
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 1841154717
- ISBN 13
- 9781841154718
- Seller
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Margate, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Harper Perennial, 2004. VG+. First Edition Thus, Seventh Printing (same year as first printing). SIGNED BY NIGEL SLATER, without dedication or inscription on title-page. Paperback. (vii),247pp. 'Toast' is Nigel Slater's award-winning 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 highlghts of the day os Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton), this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in sixties suburban England. Some age-tanning to edges of pages; else a very good plus copy of a SCARCE first edition thus SIGNED BY AUTHOR, NIGEL SLATER. There is a small circular publisher's sticker 'SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR' on the front of the book. . Signed by Author, Nigel Slater. First Edition Thus, Seventh Printing. Paperback. Very Good Plus.
Synopsis
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 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 backdrop to this exceptionally moving memoir of childhood, adolescence, and sexual awakening.A bestseller (more than 300,000 copies sold) and award-winner in the UK, Toast is sure to delight both foodies and memoir readers on this side of the pond—especially those who made such enormous successes of Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone and Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19413
- Title
- Toast: The Story Of A Boy's Hunger (SCARCE PAPERBACK FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, NIGEL SLATER)
- Author
- Slater, Nigel
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, Seventh Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1841154717
- ISBN 13
- 9781841154718
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Food And Drink. Autobiography. Biography. Memoir.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food and Drink;
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