Recent blog entries have all been slightly high on the bullshit scale, so to rectify this, here is a nice, down-to-earth entry about toast. Why toast? Because I eat a lot of it, and my crappy toaster at home has broken, forcing me to go back to the ways of the caveman, and toast my bread under the flames of the grill, remembering to turn it over halfway through (although I doubt cavemen used Kingsmill medium-sliced white that they got from Sainsbury’s. Or used a grill, for that matter. Or even ate bread, now I come to think of it. Never mind).

So while I pine for my toaster, let me introduce you to sites such as Dr Toast, which includes toast recipes (Something tells me you don’t need to be Gordon Ramsay to get them right) and from the “Didn’t you have anything better to do?” department, you can read Toast Haiku.

Still not satisfied? Why not try looking at the Toaster Museum Foundation? They need funds to build their toaster museum - donate today! And after that, take a look at what objects someone has pushed through toast, but don’t get too hungry.

‘Toast’ is also the name of the highly-acclaimed autobiography of best-selling cook Nigel Slater, and you can sample the extracts on the Guardian’s website. And finally, for all you geeks out there, toast is also the name of those popup things MSN Messenger puts in the bottom-right corner of your screen - if not carefully managed it could result in toast collisions.

Right, that’s enough about toast. I’m going to have to carry on cooking bread under the grill, until I’ve saved enough money for this little beauty…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 13th, 2004 at 14:19:47 and is filed under General.