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Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger [Kindle Edition]

Nigel Slater (Autor)
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Slater, celebrated in Britain for his food columns in London's Observer, recalls his childhood in great and moving detail, interweaving his hunt for oral gratification with prose portraits of his family. His mother, utterly devoted to him yet something of a kitchen klutz, could not make up for the physical abuse that burst from his conflicted father. Slater's mother's early demise and his father's remarriage to the family's cleaning woman did little to enhance the sensitive lad's self-image. What joy the boy found stemmed from occasional culinary successes out of his mother's kitchen and from an endless, stereotypically English cascade of sweets. Readers of Slater's accounts of eating out in the 1960s may come to believe that the British really invented fast food, something for which Americans generally shoulder blame. Slater's hunger for both food and human love are achingly recorded. American readers may find some of this memoir tedious and obscure since Slater obsesses over the seemingly boundless output of British candy factories, never employing a generic term when there is a regional trademarked noun at hand. Mark Knoblauch
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* 'Nigel is a bloody genius.' Jamie Oliver * 'The greatest cookery writer of them all.' Guardian * 'The pick of the bunch ... bubbling with ideas, suggestions, hints and personal opinions that genuinely help you to make your own mind up about how and what to cook.' The Times * 'He's a genius.' Matthew Fort, Guardian * 'Slater remains the reigning champion, a writer incapable of uninspiring sentences.' Daily Express * 'No one writes more temptingly about book.' Independent * 'My kitchen god' Red
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Can't win them all......... 10. August 2011
Von annero
Format:Taschenbuch
"Toast" habe ich mehrmals begonnen und heute endlich beendet. Manchmal wird ein Buch zum Ende hin interessanter, aber dieses Buch hat mich von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite gelangweilt. Müsste ich es mit einem Lebensmittel vergleichen, dann wäre es eine ungetoastete Scheibe "Mother's Pride".

Die Protagonisten (von der Mutter, die jeden Morgen den Toast verbrennt und auch sonst nicht kochen kann bis zur bösen Stiefmutter, die immerhin kochen kann, bis hin zu Nigel selbst) wirken hölzern und leblos.

Nach der Beschreibung der Restaurantküchen, in denen er gearbeitet hat, möchte man kaum noch außer Haus essen, so unappettlich scheint es dort zuzugehen.

Was das rege Liebesleben (wenn man es so nennen will) der englischen Restaurantcrews angeht, so muss man schmunzeln. Von anderen Ländern hört man, dass die Crews so schwer schuften, dass sie abends wie die Steine ins Bett fallen (nicht so Nigel und Kollegen). "Seventy-two hours a week is fine as long as it is punctuated with copious quantities of hot sticky summer nights' shagging." Oh,the English, when they let their hair down!

Tut mir Leid, aber für mich hätte dieses Buch nicht geschrieben werden müssen!
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I found TOAST to be very entertaining, but at the same time surprisingly depressing at times.
Impressive how vividly Nigel Slater remembers the foodstuffs of his childhood and the feelings that were (and maybe still are) attached to them. Every one of us probably has certain memories concerning food-it's something so essential, after all. But, if I speak for myself, eycept for a few things I really loved or hated to eat, my memories are rather vague. Not so with Nigel Slater. His description of the sometimes even cruel way in which children are under their parents' power when it comes to what and when to eat is so well described. These aren't happy memories, really. Not Something with a twinkle in its eye, but a very clear and piercing look back- not in anger, but austerity. Just so you know what you're getting yourself into. You can thoroughly enjoy it though, if you can take a bit of depressing-ness.
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A Brit's Baby Boomer Food Recollections Lend Resonance to All Our Food Memories 15. Februar 2006
Von Ed Uyeshima - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
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Food writer Nigel Slater is a man after my own heart, as he, like me, relates episodes of his childhood, through the food he ate at the time. I am not familiar with many of the foods he references since they are Brit-specific, for example, oddities such as grilled grapefruit, space dust, angel delight, cheese-and-onion crisps, arctic roll, and heinz tinned puddings. At the same time, I feel his descriptions are so illustrative that it is easy to sense what these concoctions taste like. He also captures the ambivalent feelings consumers had in the 1950's and 60's about accepting modern convenience foods, especially with his mother's culinary pride and his own fastidious palette on the line. Even more personally, Slater shows how he used food as an emotional substitute for a mother who died early and a distant father, who vented his frustration through abuse and ultimately remarried the family cleaning lady as if to destroy the family nucleus intentionally. However, the author does not dwell on the emotional impact of these events but rather uses his edible memories as the catharsis to which we could all relate.

The author can be a cipher as he is hesitant to incur the risk of sharing too much of his personal history. The wider significance of the people in his life is never explained, and as a reader, I don't miss this dimension since Slater is so engaging in his narrative, the focus of which is almost entirely on himself - through breakfasts, lunches and dinners. He is full of hilarious anecdotes such as his overachieving stepmother who sounds like she would put Martha Stewart to shame or taking nightly walks with the dog and a candy bar to observe couples making out in the back of cars. Slater eventually finds a substitute family working after school in the kitchen of a hotel restaurant, and he describes the mundane tasks as if they are pioneering adventures, whether it amounts to preparing prawns for a cocktail or defrosting ready-made meals. The timeline of his story is thankfully limited. It begins with burnt toast and ends as the author, just out of school, finds employment in a restaurant in London. Slater converts the recollections in between into precise sensory memories that attain emotional resonance. This is not sentimental writing by any means, as he evokes time, people and place with a palpable realism in his energetic prose. Like Ruth Reichl and Anthony Boudrain, Slater makes his own idiosyncratic exercise in culinary history a winning childhood memoir.
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A Life in Food 25. März 2005
Von MICHAEL ACUNA - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
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"My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance across her forehead..." So begins Nigel Slater's amusing tribute to his life in food and the food in his life.

Each chapter begins with a food item and Slater riffs off of that to tell the story of his life and of his family: "Cake holds a family together. I really believed it did. My father was a different man when there was cake in the house....if he had a plate of cake in his hand I knew that I could climb up onto his lap."

We forget sometimes just how important home cooked meals mean/have meant/continue to mean to us. The food doesn't have to be great but it has to be prepared with care and of course served with love to mean something to us. What Slater has done is to take the ordinary, the everyday and elevate it to the sublime. And even though he writes about his childhood in England and the foods he fondly and not-so fondly remembers, his memories are so personal and the words to describe them are so lovingly related that they cease to only be of a particular time or place...they become universal: "You can't smell a hug. You can't hear a cuddle. But if you could, I reckon it would smell and sound of warm bread-and-butter pudding."
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So many flavors, so many feelings 30. November 2004
Von E. Woontner - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
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Beautiful, funny, sad coming-of-age story, a swirl of flavors and emotions in an England in transition, where the type of chocolate bar you ate defined who you were, and the hippies were still threatening and terrifying for the middle class, stiff upper lip kind. I enjoyed it immensely and praise the ability of the author in making this reading almost an olfactory and savoring experience. The story is almost too predictable, and maybe not so important as the way in which food, memories and emotions are strictly connected.
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