A Thousand Feasts - Nigel Slater If Toast was a proper memoir of Slater's childhood, this new book provides . . . as it says on the cover. . . a memoir of sorts. It is a memoir built up through lots of individual notes that Slater has made in notebooks over the years. Some relate to food, some are from his yearly trips to Japan and others from travels to Tehran, Bergen and Vienna. In other entries he sings the praises of a favourite pot, or of the perfect tea towel. As Slater writes in the introduction. 'There is so much to feast on. The sight of a wave of snowdrops under the gnarled branches of an oak tree; the crisp pages of a new diary; a battered wicker basket of dumplings fresh from the steamer.' Hardback. 358 pages. Measurements: 14.5cm x 20.5cm x 3.5cm