Toast

出版者:HarperPerennial

作者:Nigel Slater

页数:256

出版时间:2004-04-16

价格:GBP 7.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781841154718

图书标签:英國飲食文化英国美食传记自傳nigel自传

The Sunday Times Bestseller, and the biggest memoir of the year, from Britain's best loved 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 somehting 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.

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It's a pleasure to read a good chef talking about disgusting food and a gay guy talking about miserable childhood

终于读完了啊.对于我来说实在不容易,因为实在太多甜点啊蛋糕啊什么的食物的名称了.虽然感觉很美味,但是我不喜欢查字典啊...这也是为什么词汇量一直那么低下的原因╮(╯▽╰)╭.背单词啊单词....感觉小说比电视剧更复杂一点(废话..),电视是又被腐了....

终于读完了啊.对于我来说实在不容易,因为实在太多甜点啊蛋糕啊什么的食物的名称了.虽然感觉很美味,但是我不喜欢查字典啊...这也是为什么词汇量一直那么低下的原因╮(╯▽╰)╭.背单词啊单词....感觉小说比电视剧更复杂一点(废话..),电视是又被腐了....

知道Nigel很多很多年，从原来的不喜欢，到接受，到非常喜欢，可以说Toast绝对是其中的转折点。非常适合喜欢阅读关于美食生活记忆的伦。