"Toast" by Nigel Slater

Toast by Nigel Slater

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
I guess I love British celebrity chefs so much because I don't have to watch them on TV.

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.



So I had never really heard of Nigel Slater until about a week ago when I picked up one of his cookbooks in the library.

Even though it was a translated copy, I instantly fell in love with both his style of cooking (no-fuss, easy "recipes" that are more like broad guidelines) and writing. Plus, there are rumours he's gay.



Then I found out he's written a foodie biography of his childhood and that it was super cheap on Amazon. My copy arrived on Tuesday and I read "Toast" on Wednesday night in one sitting.



It's a journey through the Midlands of the 1960 and 70s and all the class-awareness thing that's so significant of the English. It's about traditional English food, both bad and good.



Instead of chapters, there are short stories that Slater connects with certain foods. Somehow, the jigsaw comes together to make a proper story. #

A very different yet classical coming of age story centered around food- all I could've asked for on a freezing weekday night!


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Let's start blogging about vegan literature: The Case for Animal Rights

The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
I guess I have read enough AR literature for a lifetime, or at least for the time being.

Though I'm well used to reading theoretical philosophic literature, I couldn't manage to finish this one. I assume this is a very good book and I appreciate the critic of Peter Singer, but it takes far too long to finally arrive at the main topic, which is animal rights.






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Monday hit me, plus Vegan-YES-ME-con !

I'm sorry, no food pics or recipes today. I barely slept last night and had a typical all-crazy-nannies-decide-to-call Monday morning and ate a load more cake than I should have.

Anyway, Veganomicon has finally arrived today!
(but not before I had battled of the stupid people at the post office trying to sell me their bank account...)

Maybe it's because I'm a bit dopey today, but I can't really rave about it yet. Though it was the same with me for VWAV, which was also my first vegan cookbook. I bought the book and left it on the bookshelf for about two months until, all of a sudden, I started to make everything from the book.

And it also means- cooking competition!
Danny, aka as my role-model vegan made every single thing in VWAV and I said I'd join the competition who's the first to try all stuff from V-con.
I'm feeling a bit demotivated today as I saw that many of the recipes calling for foods that are only available in the US, so I might need a care package or two soon... or a good shop at the English market in Cologne that also has an American corner...