Janet Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 The Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 Oh dear. You're right - that sounds like something straight out of the 1950s. Outrageous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyD Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 I'm shocked too! I always liked his newspaper articles and I enjoyed Toast. Is there any chance it could be tongue-in-cheek within the context?? Just a hope... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Stein Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 I think it's pretty certain, Lucy. Slater is a clever guy and a fine writer. The context would be helpful but on the face of it, it looks ironically intended to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anika Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 With his slagging off of other celebrity chefs and his sweeping generalisation that British stews are "the colour of washing-up water and smell of old people" (his might be, mine aren't) I decided he was so far up his own backside that I've gone right off him. Thanks! I needed a good laugh! I tried to read Toast because I'm really curious about English 'comfort foods', which is what I thought this book would be about, but he makes some pretty distastful remarks at times! He turned me off, too!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 You can tell it annoyed me greatly! I read Toast for our Bookworms group and didn't mind that so much - I didn't find it as patronising as this but it wasn't always an easy read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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