Fortunately, with his parents gone, cooking serves as a way for Nigel to leave all the madness behind him and start his adult life.
Potter turns up the kitchen heat a notch until she literally feeds Nigel’s dad to death. Nigel soon starts a culinary rivalry over scones and lemon meringue pie with Mrs. Meanwhile, Nigel discovers the Domestic Science (home ec) class at his new school and his talent for cooking. There’s something to be said for the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach!
Her cooking goes straight to Nigel’s dad’s heart and he moves them all out to the country, so he can live in sin with Mrs. She’s dressed like a tart and has the amazing ability to make enticing and picture perfect tarts, cakes, pies, roasts, and British classics like Toad in the Hole. Potter, played by the wonderful Helena Bonham Carter, shows up. Life changes for these two sad blokes when their new cleaner (housekeeper) Mrs. Instead, he ends up with a very burnt dinner that his dad assures him is just fine. Nigel attempts to fill the void by cooking dinner himself. Nigel and his distant, sad father bumble through trying to care of each other. Nigel’s mum passes away from severe asthma while he’s still young. Poor Nigel is starving for a decent meal (he doesn’t even like the milk at school), but at least has his mum’s love – and toast with butter – to sustain him. Her idea of making dinner is taking canned food, placing the unopened cans in a pan of water, and boiling them until heated. In Toast, we quickly learn that Nigel’s mum literally cannot cook just about everything but mince pies. Now we have the movie, Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger, based on food writer, Nigel Slater’s book of the same name.
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(Well, that was half of a good foodie movie as the parts with the blogger Julie were annoying.) There hasn’t been a good foodie movie since Julie and Julia came out in 2009. Why you should watch the movie and bake the pie A movie review of Nigel Slater's Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger and a recipe for lemon meringue pie from food stylist, Katharine Tidy.
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