Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigels passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.Whether relating his mothers ritual burning of the toast, his fathers dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights of the day as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton), this incredibly moving and deliciously evocative memoir of childhood, adolescence and sexual awakening vividly recreates daily life in sixties and seventies suburban England.Wonderful, precise, extraordinaryGuardianToast connects emotions, memory and taste buds.GeniusSunday TimesYou read this remarkable memoir partly cringing, partly marvelling at Slaters hallucinogenic retrieval of times past. He is the Proust of the Nesquik eraIndependentAcutely observed, poignant and beautifully written