Eating for England by Nigel Slater

[Janet]

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[Kylie]

Oh dear. You're right - that sounds like something straight out of the 1950s. Outrageous!

[LucyD]

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...

[Philip Stein]

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.

[Anika]

 

 

 

 

 

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!!

[Janet]

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.