Book 35 - Nigel Slater "Toast"
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jazzy_daveNigel Slater "Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger" (Fourth Estate)
An autobiography told through food. Dinners cooked well, cooked awfully, cooked with or without love. Sweets. Just about anything that you can put into your mouth.
This book has a great balance between the delicious and the disgusting, both described very plasticly. The description of eating spaghetti for the first time is hilarious. It also has a great balance between the very personal, almost ideosynchratic, and the culture this is grounded in. I also found it really touching at times.
Nostalgia all the way. Not a sentimentalised vision of the past, but a slice of hard cold reality served with a dressing of wit.
I would recommend it to any foodie lover.
An autobiography told through food. Dinners cooked well, cooked awfully, cooked with or without love. Sweets. Just about anything that you can put into your mouth.
This book has a great balance between the delicious and the disgusting, both described very plasticly. The description of eating spaghetti for the first time is hilarious. It also has a great balance between the very personal, almost ideosynchratic, and the culture this is grounded in. I also found it really touching at times.
Nostalgia all the way. Not a sentimentalised vision of the past, but a slice of hard cold reality served with a dressing of wit.
I would recommend it to any foodie lover.
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