Nick Frost writes a food-based memoir
How cooking helped him cope with his mum's alcoholism
Nick Frost has written a book billed as ‘a mixture of memoir and cooking’.
Titled A Slice Of Fried Gold: Taste My Memories will the comedy star’s second book, following his 2015 autobiography Truths, Half Truths & Little White Lies.
Frost took to Instagram to announce the title yesterday, saying: ‘A lot of people have been asking me what's cooking. Let me show you.
‘It's my new book, A Slice Of Fried Gold: It's out September 28. And it's a mixture of memoir and cooking really. So please join me on September 28 and taste my memories. Taste…’
Publishers Blink say that as well as being the star of shows and films such as Spaced and Hot Fuzz, Frost is ‘also a keen, self-taught cook: so keen, in fact, that in lockdown, he personally delivered pies to his Instagram followers.’
The blurb adds: ‘This book is his love letter to food, to kitchens and the people in them.
‘Nick's favourite thing to eat aged 10 was his mother's stroganoff and as her alcoholism worsened, he began to learn to cook it himself, gradually taking over and using it as a magic trick to conjure up the very best bits of her - the stable, sober bits, which became harder to find as the years went on.
‘This was the beginning of a lifelong love of process and technique, of escaping into a world of hisses, blips and thunks of a knife on a board.’
Publisher Susannah Otter told trade website The Bookseller: ‘ Never in my 10 years as an editor has a proposal been met with such a tidal wave of internal enthusiasm as this one, and I am honoured to be publishing A Slice of Fried Gold at Blink.
‘Nick holds a deep appreciation of cooking, food, and all it carries with it, as well as an enviable ability to find the perfect phrase to describe these things.’
Published: 24 Jun 2023
