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    Out of the Frying Pan: Scenes from My Life
    Out of the Frying Pan: Scenes from My Life
    Out of the Frying Pan: Scenes from My Life
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Out of the Frying Pan: Scenes from My Life

    Written by Keith Floyd

    Narrated by Keith Floyd

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    Keith Floyd’s exuberant personality, as much as his cooking skills, has made him a favourite both as bestselling author and as television presenter. But here, for the first time, he tells his own story – and it is full of surprises. An idiosyncratic, splendid autobiography of a well known personality, and the discovery of a writing talent.

    The stories from his childhood in Somerset are vivid and moving: his grandfather with his tin leg, his mother at the mills, and his uncle, the ferret keeper and the black sheep of the family for ‘carrying on’ with married women.

    Keith Floyd spent a short spell on a local newspaper, and then, in a hilarious episode, joined the army. After he and the Ministry of Defense decided that they did not suit each other, he took his first cooking job as an assistant vegetable cook in a Bristol hotel. The great period of bistros and cafes had dawned and Keith Floyd was in the forefront, cooking in an open kitchen, with Pink Floyd blaring from the speakers.

    What is wonderful about this book is the vividness of the scenes he paints and the deftness with which he draws the characters – including his several wives. Those who have admired Keith Floyd’s way with a whisk will now be impressed to discover and enjoy his remarkable skill with words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 7, 2010
    ISBN9780007362806
    Author

    Keith Floyd

    Keith Floyd was a highly acclaimed and influential chef whose groundbreaking television series not only changed the way cookery programmes were made, but introduced a nation to the joys of food. He made more than twenty series and authored over twenty-five books. In later years he lived quietly in France. He died on 14 September 2009.

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    • 4/5
      The chapter on his time in France appears to be missing and the last three chapters are repeats of the first three but the actual book itself is very entertaining and nicely read by Keith Floyd.
    • 1/5
      Files are missing and out of order which is a pity as the book is good