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How to Cook a Book

How to Cook a Book

What would Jane Grigson say about modern food writing?

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Mar 04, 2024
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What’s a cookbook for in these days of climate change and a widening split between the billion bottoms and the bottom billions? Is it teach us to cook or to impress our friends? To expand our horizons or to enable us to travel vicariously through the words of our favourite scribes? It’s 74 years since Elizabeth David first blew our minds with her Medit…

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