Toast: Homage to a Superfood

by Nick Parker

Funnier than Delia Smith, and with more recipes than Longitude, Toast tells you everything you could possibly want to know about the nation's favorite fast food. Learn why the Victorians thought toast-flavored water was good for your health, marvel at Mrs Beton's "toast sandwich" (a piece of toast between to slices of bread), and get needlessley embroiled in the Great Marmite Debate. With over 30 recipes, Toast takes a satirical look at our fondness with one of the world's greatest fast foods.

Genres: Food

112 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2002

Reviews

[Manny]

It occurred to me that someone must by now have written A Toast to Toast. And indeed they have! Though I can't guarantee that Gideon O. Burton's fine sonnet is included in this book...

A Toast to Toast

Of all the snacks that beckon in the night
When tummies growl and gnawing hunger calls,
But one can satisfy my famished plight
And summons me to stumble through the halls.
Oh piece of bread, so humble in your slice
What magic turns your skin from white to brown?
What arrogant aromas do entice
When toaster pops and butter coats you down!
With cinnamon and sugar or with jam
I dress you in the ornaments of sweet
More sated, I, than proverb's happy clam
When crispy, hot and warm my lips you meet.
Of every night-time treat you are the most
I honor you, great food, whose name is toast.

[Camilla Thomsen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lost for words... this book is amazing. Read it.