Burnt Toast: The Skinny Food Writing Competition
Burnt Toast: The Skinny Food Writing Competition Reflections on the role of toast in one writer's life, from our Food Writing Competition Feature by Caitlin Johnston | 12 Apr 2021 Picture the early morning rush in 2014; a 12-year-old refusing to get out of bed, an anguished father dragging a duvet from his child's grasp, then immediate bonding over very different types of toast. Most school mornings started the same – my father would yell and roar, then hunker down in the sunlit kitchen to enjoy two slices of not burnt but blackened toast. The charred smell and thick powdered ...