吐司

根据英国国宝级美食作家Nigel Slater的获奖图书《吐司：少年饥饿记》改编而成，将童年记忆与他对美食的挚爱将出现在大荧屏上。 少年Nigel Slater（弗莱迪·海默 Freddie Highmore 饰）的母亲从来不是个好厨子，连简单的熬汤都不会，一家三口最常 吃的就是土司。当母亲哮喘发作去世以后，父亲只能以罐头食品取代。后来那个精于烹调的清洁工（海伦娜·邦汉·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰）借此抓住了父亲的胃，变成了他的继母。日益增长的敌意让Nigel选择参加了家政班，学习制作各种甜食，来挑战这个厨艺精湛的继母。父亲每天都要忍受两人不断的吵闹，并被强迫吃掉两个相继制作的没完没了的甜点。二人间的战争终于在父亲的猝死后停止。17岁的Nigel收拾行囊，在厨房中找到工作，登入了超凡厨艺的辉煌殿堂。

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 aspirations. When she dies of asthma Nigel is left with a distant father but worse is to come when the 'common' Mrs. Joan Potter arrives as the Slaters' cleaner. Nigel fears, rightly, that her aim is to be the next Mrs. 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 inspiration to leave home after his father's death and head for the hotel kitchens of London.