The ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain. Wolverhampton,1967:- nine y...
The ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain.
Wolverhampton,1967:- nine year old Nigel Slater loves his mother though she is a hopeless cook, her finest offering being toast whilst he has great culinary aspiration. When she dies of asthma Nigel is left with a distant father but wore is to come when the 'common' Mr. Joan Potter arrives as the Slater' cleaner. Nigel fear,rightly,that her aim is to be the next Mr. Slater and soon he has a new stepmother and is whisked away to the country. Joan is,however,a superb cook but this only makes for rivalry as Nigel,the only boy in his cookery class at secondary school,competes with her to find the way to his father's heart. A weekend job in a pub kitchen introduces Nigel to an older boy,another great cook and gay like himself ,who gives him the confidence and inpiration to leave home after his father's death and head for the hotel kitchen of London.
