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How to Cook a Book

Thoughts and epiphanies from a food writers' retreat

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Jun 19, 2023
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It was over breakfast at the first ‘food focussed’ writing retreat in February as we tucked into poached eggs on home-made sour dough that I announced my first epiphany. This wasn’t any old food writing retreat; yes, it was the first in a series of East Sussex foodie sleepovers, a space to write, to stop the world and dive into food memories, to pull ou…

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