Gilly Smith's Substack

How to Cook a Book offers riches from my writing retreats and author chats, PLUS an online retreat. Extra Bites gives listeners to Cooking the Books podcast.. extra bites of my guests. And there's extracts from my book, Taste and the TV Chef

The online version of the offline food writing retreats I hold at my home in East Sussex for those who can’t get here any other way. This is for paid subscribers only and opens a door to a whole community of writers and writers-in-waiting who want accountability, mentoring and a hand to hold when the grip of the Imposter/Tortoise Syndrome gets too tight.

To celebrate 25 years since The Naked Chef changed the way Britain thought about food, here's the back story of how TV taught us to eat through extracts from my Gourmand and International Impact Award winning book, Taste and the TV Chef.