Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

A deliciously evocative story of childhood in 1960s suburban England from one of theUnited Kingdom's best-loved writers, Nigel Slater

Toast is the truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as Nigel Slater takes us on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry⿔rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits⿔we are transported⿦

His mother is a chops-and-peas sort of cook, exasperated by the highs and lows of a tem...