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  <title><![CDATA[Toast]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2003</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Toast: the story of a boy's hunger</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nigel Slater]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An enjoyable collection of memories linked to food.<br/><br/>I felt sad for Nigel as a young boy.  He seemed to lack so much.  Gladly, he was able to find happiness as an adult.<br/><br/>When I finished this book, I immediately began to read Orxy and Crake.  I was amazed at how many similar them...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17543265">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm giving this one a fourth star because Slater really does write well; however, he became progressively bitchier as the book went on. His world fell apart when his mother died when he was 10, which is understandable, though not for the usual reasons. He's fairly open about his ability to manipulat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72654017">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess I love British celebrity chefs so much because I don't have to watch them on TV.<br/>I hate all the German famous cooks because they're everywhere in the media around me, whereas somebody who only exist on the internet and in cookbooks can't get on your nerves.<br/><br/>So I had never rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41835830">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't read many biographies but telling people about your life via the memories you have of food seems a novel approach.  The snippets of memory are intriguing but you do have to wait for some events to unfold, and there is no firm timeline.  I would have liked more regular updates as to how old h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50078500">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Toast&quot; is a memoir in four layers.  It's simultaneously a nostalgic look back at mid-century Britain... a loving catalog of the cuisine of the day (both tasty and, to my mind anyway, repulsive)... the melancholy story of a kid growing up &quot;different&quot; in a family and a society tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42876193">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The subtitle, &quot;The Story of a Boy's Hunger&quot;, refers as much to the young Nigel's hunger for affection from his father and for affirmation from his family as to his memories and longings of actual food.  There is a sadness to that, and it seems to override the attention given to the food it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72359585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was about a boy who tells his feelings through food. The boys life was upsetting and very sad after his mother died, but before his mother died the book had a very happy feeling to it, but then it gets grim.  THe food plays a major role in the story because the feelings he has are towards ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69252100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nigel Slater writes cookbooks which are as much a pleasure to read as they are to use. Having enjoyed his recipes it is a very moving experience to read the story of his childhood and the experiences which shaped his talent. It is also a very confronting story surprised me - such warm and joyful wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55239125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book brought back childhood memories. Not that I was into hard-to-pronounce food names when I was growing up but reading the book made me think back of how it was when I was growing up in Quezon. There is a part in Nigel's memory as a boy when he kept on discussing the odor of their house or th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56458815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41312370">
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard a snatch of this when it was Book Of The Week (quite some time ago) and have been meaning to read it ever since. A sort of autobiography covering the formative years, with each vignette prompted by or focused around a particular food. <br/><br/>You see, Proust's madeleines don't really evo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41312370">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A difficult English 1960s childhood viewed through the lens of food cooked, bought, stolen, eaten, approved and frowned upon. <br/><br/>Uptight parents with no communication skills + pervasive, vaguely draconian social mores + early death of mother + predictable dislike of new stepmother + passage...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15112035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nigel Slater was a vaguely familiar name...I have one of his cookbooks somewhere that prevented me from starving in my early 20s - but somewhat like reading Ruby Wax's autobiography, I was totally unprepared for the sadness of this book. <br/><br/>Nigel had inflicted on him all the worst vices of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15082676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This funny, touching and evocative memoir of the author's childhood is centered around his memories of food (with plenty of sex thrown in.)  From the heart-wrenching story of his mother's decline (culminating in the horror of instant mashed potatoes), through his father's inexplicable relationship w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62509329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48303919">
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    <body><![CDATA[well, I sort of &quot;read&quot; it... not all the way to the end though. I thought it would be in the vein of Ruth Reichl's Tender at the bone. Nunh unh. I wasn't picking up on any love of food, just a rankling, depressing story of a wretched childhood. Just me, but I didn't want to know more. Plen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48303919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a memoir but it is comprised of essays with titles like 'Toast' or 'Peach Melba.' These sometimes ghastly, sometimes delicious essays could easily stand alone, but Slater ties them  together beautifully, linking the food of his youth with the joys and sorrows of childhood, family in its many...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65911551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20886840">
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    <body><![CDATA[I originally bought this book when i was spending 3 weeks in London a few years ago. I started reading it, and was annoyed and bored to death by it's apparent &quot;anecdotal&quot; structure. so, it went to my bookshelf and followed me around for a few years. suffice it to say, i pulled it out again...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20886840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Slater supplies a window into his dysfunctional childhood and how the love of food (or the loath of his mother's cooking) kept him afloat. I would file this one in the &quot;tragic comedy&quot; file. It is easy to see why Britain considers him a national treasure!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked that this memoir was very realistic, describing a childhood in suburban England in the 1960s. It was just a bit too bleak for, me though, with seemingly uncaring parents and a somehow bitter edge to all the stories. I'm reading and loving Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries, but I'm going to pass...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40139534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book after hearing the author being interviewed on NPR.  Nigel Slater's stories focus on his childhood memories, good, bad and ugly, and how he associates those memories with food.  Slater's descriptives were so perfect that I felt I could imagine what he was truly feeling.  Althoug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16813925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Toast is a memoir of Nigel Slater's childhood, told through his memories of food.  An interesting read - especially for foodies.  After finishing I checked out his website - which is beautifully presented.  Take a look - with sections for recipes, his cottage garden etc.]]></body>
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