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'[Nigel Slater] is a national treasure.' Bee Wilson, Sunday Times 'A joyously tongue--in--cheek nostalgic mix!yum, yum.' Jenny Uglow, Sunday Telegraph 'Nigel Slater understands as well as anybody how to turn ingredients into a meal, but his big thing is his grasp of how a meal can turn into a new confection in the mind. For Slater, a meal isn't just nourishment, it's memory, nostalgia, excitements and heartache!A wonderfully comforting book.' William Leith, Evening Standard 'From mashed swede, home made gingerbread, funeral teas and dinner parties to washing up, tipping and Heinz ketchup, Nigel Slater celebrates the eccentricity and diversity of the British attitude to food, cooking and eating.' Woman and Home 'Slater's fans will be sure to snap this one up.' Harpers Bazaar 'At last, I have found a little remedy for my food--overdose moments!My antidote is Nigel Slater's latest, highly addictive, extremely funny and thought--provoking book on British eating habits. I love it -- one of my favourite food books this season and it doesn't even feature a recipe.' Easy Living 'Warm, funny and soulful writing. Grab a copy, lock yourself away and enjoy.' Sainsbury's magazine 'Packed with his never--bettered brand of veneration for all things quirkily British.' Kate Colquhoun, in the Daily Telegraph 'Books of the Year' Praise for 'Toast': 'Everyone who loves good food warms to Nigel Slater's rich descriptive writing, but this touching memoir proves he's more than a cookery writer. Its emotional impact will strike a chord with many.' The Sunday Mirror 'Proves he can write mouth-wateringly about families and life, too: I gobbled it up.' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 'It should come as no surprise that Slater's autobiography connects emotions, memory and taste buds. The genius of his food writing comes from an obvious belief that food and happiness share the same organ in the brain.' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times 'Toast is England's answer to Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential.' Daily Telegraph '[A] coming-of-appetite story.' Time Out 'Proves that Slater can write well about anything.' Joanna Blythman, Scottish Sunday Herald 'Food was the boy, is the man!It is his very ordinariness, the commonness of [his] story, that makes this wonderful, precise autobiographical journey so extraordinary.' Matthew Fort, Observer

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Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of bestselling books, including the classics 'Real Fast Food' and 'Real Cooking', and the award-winning 'Appetite'. He has written a much-loved column for 'The Observer' for over a decade. His autobiography, 'Toast -- the story of a boy's hunger', won six major awards, including the British Biography of the Year, the Glenfiddich Award and the Andre Simon Memorial Award. 'The Kitchen Diaries' won the Design and Production Award at the 2006 British Book Trade Awards.

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