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The Bloomsbury Cookbook
Recipes for Life, Love and Art
Synopsis
Here the Bloomsbury story is told in seven broadly chronological chapters, beginning in the 1890s and finishing in the very recent past. The Bloomsbury Group fostered a fresh, creative and vital way of living that encouraged debate and communication ('only connect'), as often as not across the dining table. Gathered at these tables were many of the great figures in art, literature and economics in the early twentieth century: E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, J. M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf, among many others. Each chapter comprises a series of narratives, many of which are enhanced with an appropriate recipe, along with sketches, paintings, photographs, letters and handwritten notes, and featuring original quotations throughout. Part cookbook, part social and cultural history, this book will appeal to lovers of food and lovers of literature alike.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
'I need this book!' - Nigella Lawson 'Exceptionally beautiful ... the most endearing and enjoyable book yet about the Bloomsbury Group' - Country Life 'A window onto Bloomsbury via recipes, grocery lists, pantries, kitchens and, above all, dining tables' - Virginia Nicholson 'Gets to the heart of the group by looking at what they put in their stomachs ... in page after delicious page, 50 years of soup, salmon and friendship unfurl' - Daily Telegraph 'A meticulous and lavishly illustrated account of the food of the Bloomsbury set ... summons up a lost world of meals on trays, milk puddings, gin slings and kedgeree' - Sunday Times 'Luxuriously produced ... packed with entertaining stories of Bloomsbury eccentricities' - Guardian 'An enticing blend of cultural and gastronomic history' - Times Literary Supplement 'Glorious ... a feast of eccentric detail' - New Statesman 'Witty and erudite' - The Spectator