Toast Chronicles the Life of Nigel Slater
By: Rosemina Nazarali
Published: October 8, 2011

Nigel Slater was intrigued by the world of food at a very young age. The movie Toast is based on the life of the renowned food writer and chronicles his life as a child who lost his mother and spent the rest of his childhood being raised by his father and his housekeeper, Mrs. Potter.
Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Scott and Freddie Highmore, Toast  is a movie that follows the trials and tribulations of a family and depicts Slater as a young person who finds solace is home economics class and working in the kitchen at a local pub.