"When you're deprived of something, it just make you all the more hungry for it." NIGEL knew and acquiesced since he was a child that he has a hot and authoritarian father who is just as eager to enjoy the taste buds as he is With a submissive but very inexperienced mother, his childhood was starving, so he was craving fresh cheese in the glass cabinet and the ordinary but never made pork pie his mother said.
At the beginning of the film, NIGEL walked into the department store and smiled involuntarily when he saw the dazzling shelves. He liked the visual satisfaction that these bottles and jars brought him, even though his mother was extremely disgusted with fresh ingredients and liked to use them. The man with canned vegetables and sliced cheese, he still likes to look at the food on the shelf even if it's a small bottle of pepper. But curiosity always drives NIGEL to try something that her mother has not done, NIGEL said to her mother: "Let's make a cake.". A cake with buttercream frosting that is very common and easy to make for most western families, it took a lot of courage for NIGEL's mother. Although NIGEL's mother was always very bad at cooking during the production process, the scene about her making cakes in the movie is very interesting. NIGEL watched her mother clumsily sprinkle flour, throw butter, and knead the dough. Instead of showing impatience, he patiently assisted his mother in finishing the cake with buttercream frosting, which was still burnt in the end, and even the tinned dinner that had been soaked in the pot, so the mother said, "Look. Come and let me make some toast."
This is probably the best dish that NIGEL's mother would cook. Butter the slices that pop out of the toaster with a little butter, and once you take a bite, they're crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Although the father at the table was expressionlessly pulling the bread into his mouth, and his mother was embarrassed but had no choice but to drink tea and eat toast with a pretense of enjoyment, but NIGEL ate almost every meal. He can also smile very contentedly while serving toast. "No matter how bad things get, it's impossible not to love someone who made you toast." It can be seen that in NIGEL's heart, even the mother of a food killer, he can't hate her, even because of every piece of toast, it will only get worse The one who loves more deeply. Unfortunately, NIGEL's mother had asthma and she knew she wouldn't live long, so before Christmas, she woke NIGEL and taught him ginkgo tarts in the kitchen. It sounds funny, a mother who is not as good at cooking as her own son teaches her son to make desserts, but this dessert full of mother's love ends up being a pie that was put into the oven before it was baked or filled with flan in a hurry. Skin. Mother is gone, which is a big blow to NIGEL and NIGEL's father. After the mother left, the father lay beside his son and hid in the corner and cried bitterly, while NIGEL looked at the toast on the cabinet, cut a slice, and sat alone in the empty space like the mother's usual cooking for him. At the table, eat toast contentedly. In fact, I think this scene is the most touching scene where NIGEL shows that he is very sad about his mother's death and misses his love for his mother. Although NIGEL takes out his mother's skirt and pretends to dance with his mother at the back of the film, there is also one that he hates Mrs. Potter's use of My mother's apron is cooking delicious food, and there are many very straightforward vents to express NIGEL's thoughts for his mother, but I still think that toast is the best thing for him to remember his mother.
Later, my father fell in love with a married Mrs. Potter. This Mrs. Potter is different from her mother. She is very good at cooking and can do everything. Maybe Mrs. Potter used her cooking skills to tie NIGEL's father's stomach. In the end, despite how much NIGEL hated a married woman, she went out The way of showing mercy is how reluctant NIGEL is but has to admit that Mrs. Potter's apple pie and lemon meringue pie are the best in the world. NIGEL's father and Mrs. Potter are married and intervene in his life. . Growing up, NIGEL began to consciously exclude this stepmother, who had never been on good terms with him. Regardless of the mocking eyes of his classmates, he chose the home economics class that the boys in the class didn't take, and he began to learn how to cook and how to cook well. When he came back with a bunch of baked scones, he was looking forward to letting his father taste it. Finally, his father was not like the butter salmon that NIGEL made when he was a child to please his father, who had never liked him very much. The salmon was burnt in order to wait for the father who didn't come home for a long time, but the father kept mumbling that this was his favorite flavor of salmon and then ate it bit by bit, just not wanting to make his filial son sad and praise him , and this time, he said without hesitation that it is delicious, which is really not bad. The father's reaction also made NIGEL's stepmother, who had always underestimated NIGEL, panicked, which made her feel threatened by her status in the family, so NIGEL and her stepmother started a tit-for-tat cooking. The stepmother would make afternoon tea for his father before he came back from school, and even made dessert less than an hour after dinner to force NIGEL's father to eat it. This food tug-of-war is not so much a mutual dislike between NIGEL and his stepmother, but a desire for more love from his father. The stepmother knew that she got this man with her stomach, so she could only tie this man with her stomach. And NIGEL continues to specialize in cooking, hoping to make lemon meringue pie as delicious as his stepmother to please his father. The original intention should be to maintain an incomplete family and make up for his hungry youth. With the death of his father, NIGEL was finally relieved. He let go of everything he couldn't let go before, packed up his luggage and left the home where he had no nostalgia, and went to his favorite kitchen to start his legendary life. .
At the end of the film, a middle-aged man leaned against the wall, drinking coffee and eating toast. He listened to NIGEL with doubts about his desire to practice in this restaurant. This man is the autobiography of "Toast". The film adaptation of the real protagonist NIGEL SLATER. This design at the end is closely related to the title of the movie, and yes, the last food in the movie is toast. Toast was the only food in NIGEL's hungry childhood that he never hated even though he had no expectations. Although the second half of the film is more of lemon meringue pie, which is my father's favorite dessert, I think NIGEL is so attentive. One of the go-to desserts can only call it the best lemon meringue pie. Lemon meringue was his love for his father and his hatred for his stepmother. In fact, from the film, in addition to being abusive to women, I can't see that the stepmother is not good to NIGEL. Maybe NIGEL hates a woman who is very good at cooking. the position of the mother. He wants to use food to maintain his dignity, protect his relatives, realize his value, and realize a dream that has been planted in his heart for a long time, just like NIGEL fantasizes about himself standing in a department store on the green lawn under the sun It's like the dream of holding all kinds of food for guests in front of the counter. A piece of toast smeared with cheese, just like our lives, the slightly blackened exterior is baked with a soft interior, the salty cheese melts a little bit by the residual heat of the toast, bite down, The happiest moment is when you pull out the shredded cheese.
There is a food in everyone's youth that can evoke their purest love, maybe it's freshly baked toast that pops out of the toaster, maybe it's lemon meringue pie topped with smooth and sweet cream, whether it is What, please remember its most beautiful taste, remember the person who made this food for you, I hope every time you eat it, it will remind you of something you may not want to remember, but now you miss it so much .
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