Very nostalgic, if you are fifty-something like me.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Find it on the bookshelf in the back room.

Howdy! Hola! Bonjour! Guten Tag! I have this book and to prove it I have gone to wibblywibblywoodotbookcrossingdotcom and entered the BCID; a series of digits known only to those who hold this book in their hands. I realise this is something of a break with the tradition of taking books and never saying "thank you" but I refuse to apologise!

Thanks for the free Books Kaykee :)

I'll have a read of this as soon as I've read the hundred million other books I have to read.

This is the kind of thing I never would have read ever but really enjoyed it.

I didn't realise when I caught it that I'm aware of who Slater is. I've seen a couple of his programmes. He's really creepy and disturbing. There's a scene in the book where his father watches him eat ham before losing his temper and throwing Slater's plate across the garden. I know exactly how he feels. I remember watching him spread jam onto a pudding and I just wanted to grab the knife and punch him repeatedly in the head with the handle shouting "Handle your food properly or this is what you get!" And I really am not a violent man at all.

However, this is a very charming book, funny and at times shocking. He has a way of reversing things or jumping from one subject to another that I admire a lot. Peanut's to penises in a single sentence. I read the Radishes section to the BCer Dillonio who sits next to me at work and he was so disturbed he had to go away for quite a while.

A fascinating picture of that rather disturbing time in British cooking (which luckily I'm too young to remember) between Rationing and Curry. The spaghetti and parmesan scene is gold dust. But more than that you get a picture of wider British culture with his nouveaux riche parents struggling to look middle class and the generational split in the 60s... and all told through the medium of food.

Dillonio was also most impressed with your BC sticker. "Professional" he said, and looked at me like I was quite the disappointment, "That's what you need".

I've passed this to a couple of trough-guzzling friends of mine.

The trough guzzling friends have the book....and final log it, phew! The Rooster boy has began to read but is not giving away any hinters about his opinion at this stage will make him update when he has finished and passed to me.

What a surprising book, but a very good read. Childhood memories of food spliced with penises! Oh and a step-mum with a sinister edge, marvelous!

Jo is reading it now!

Andrew