Stuart
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Welcome to BookCrossing and thanks for being a part of World Book Night 2011, the largest book giveaway in history. 1,000,000 specially printed copies of 25 different books changed hands on March 5th 2011 and began their journey from reader to reader. This book is one of them. World Book Night has joined with BookCrossing to help track these books as they travel. You can be a part of that journey by making a comment in the book's journal here on BookCrossing. Your journal entry can say how you got the book, what you thought of it, your plans for it or whatever else you might like to add.
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Journal Entry 2 by worldbooknight at -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, February 25, 2011
Released 13 yrs ago (2/25/2011 UTC) at -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom
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This book is being released via BookCrossing on 5 March 2011 as part of the inaugural World Book Night. With the full support of the Publishers Association, the Booksellers Association, the Independent Publishers Guild, the Reading Agency with libraries, World Book Day and the BBC, one million books will be given away by an army of passionate readers to members of the public across the UK and Ireland.
Read and release!
Read and release!
Actually this is "Toast" by Nigel Slater.
Toast is my choice to give away to celebrate World Book Night 2011.
We love food, we love good books!
"Toast is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as he takes readers on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry—rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits—we are transported....
His mother was a chops-and-peas sort of cook, exasperated by the highs and lows of a temperamental stove, a finicky little son, and the asthma that was to prove fatal. His father was a honey-and-crumpets man with an unpredictable temper. 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 backdrop to this exceptionally moving memoir of childhood, adolescence, and sexual awakening.
A bestseller (more than 300,000 copies sold) and award-winner in the UK, Toast is sure to delight both foodies and memoir readers on this side of the pond—especially those who made such enormous successes of Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone and Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential."
I hope you enjoy reading Toast.
Please feel free to share what you think & your memories linked to food.
Happy World Book Night!
Toast is my choice to give away to celebrate World Book Night 2011.
We love food, we love good books!
"Toast is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as he takes readers on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry—rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits—we are transported....
His mother was a chops-and-peas sort of cook, exasperated by the highs and lows of a temperamental stove, a finicky little son, and the asthma that was to prove fatal. His father was a honey-and-crumpets man with an unpredictable temper. 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 backdrop to this exceptionally moving memoir of childhood, adolescence, and sexual awakening.
A bestseller (more than 300,000 copies sold) and award-winner in the UK, Toast is sure to delight both foodies and memoir readers on this side of the pond—especially those who made such enormous successes of Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone and Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential."
I hope you enjoy reading Toast.
Please feel free to share what you think & your memories linked to food.
Happy World Book Night!
I am keeping this one for BookCrossing use.
International BookRay, if enough people sign up :)
International BookRay Toast by Nigel Slater
Usual rules apply, please try to read & pass on to next reader within 6 weeks.
Participants
dutch-book (Netherlands-Europe)
raeliz64 (UK-International)
akosikulot (Philippines-ASIA/AUS)
Alannia (Malaysia-can ship International)
International BookRay, if enough people sign up :)
International BookRay Toast by Nigel Slater
Usual rules apply, please try to read & pass on to next reader within 6 weeks.
Participants
dutch-book (Netherlands-Europe)
raeliz64 (UK-International)
akosikulot (Philippines-ASIA/AUS)
Alannia (Malaysia-can ship International)
Enjoy everyone x
Arrived today. This looks like a promising read. Who doesn't want to read about food? I'm one of these people that whenever I read about a particular food, I suddenly have a craving for it and need to exclaim: O my god, I have such a taste for (fill in)
And have I already mentioned I absolutely love toast with butter that is melting. Yum..
And have I already mentioned I absolutely love toast with butter that is melting. Yum..
I finished this book. I liked it but it also felt a little jumpy. I would have liked it if it had felt more chronologically. I will PM raeliz64 for his/her adress.
To the next in line, raeliz64!
This arrived a couple of days ago - thanks very much.
Loved it! Funny and poignant, a great read.
Posted on to akosikulot today.
