18.03.10 | Katie Allen in The Bookseller
Fourth Estate has confirmed that Nigel Slater's memoir Toast is to be made into a drama for BBC1, with a new cookery series lined up for the chef in the autumn.
Ruby Films, the company behind the movie version of Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl and the recent TV adaptation of Andrea Levy's Small Island, is to make the 90-minute drama.
Toast tells the story of Slater's childhood and adolescence, and of his appetite and the food he encountered along the way. Fourth Estate will publish a tie-in.
The transmission date is lined up for "just before Christmas" according to the publisher, which is likely to follow a second season of last autumn's "Simple Suppers", which has been recommissioned.
As before, the series will use some recipes from Slater's Tender: Volume 1 cookbook, plus from Tender: Volume 2, focusing on fruit, which will be published in September.
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