How to Cook a Book
The 'regional' story
It was agent, Emily Sweet on Zoom at the very first Cooking the Books food writing retreat back in February who told us about the current publishing trend for what it calls ‘regional’ cookbooks.
Regional: it’s one of those words that carefully avoids the real story - migrant, refugee, asylum seeker, even while it hunts it down.
Regional means ‘other’, a…
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