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The Bloomsbury Cookbook
Recipes for Life, Love and Art
Jans Ondaatje Rolls, Anne Chisholm
£25.00
'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
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Part cookbook, part social and cultural history, this book takes us to the very centre of the Bloomsbury Group: the dining tables over which its members argued, debated, laughed and loved. With almost 300 recipes, this fresh and inventive volume will appeal to lovers of food and lovers of literature alike.
Reviews
'I need this book!'
Nigella Lawson
'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
'An enticing blend of cultural and gastronomic history'
Times Literary Supplement
'Glorious … a feast of eccentric detail'
New Statesman
'A window onto Bloomsbury via recipes, grocery lists, pantries, kitchens and, above all, dining tables'
Virginia Nicholson
Product Information
Book Details
Format: Paperback
Size: 23.5 x 16.9 cm
Extent: 384 pp
Illustrations: 165
Publication date: 25 July 2024
ISBN: 9780500297933
Contents List
Foreword by Anne Chisholm; ‘The Charleston Trust’ by Virginia Nicholson; Introduction • 1. Before Bloomsbury (1890s–1904) • 2. Old Bloomsbury (1904–14) • 3. Bloomsbury in Wartime (1914–19) • 4. An Appetite for Bloomsbury (1920s) • 5. Bloomsbury and Abroad (1920s–1930s) • 6. Bloomsbury in Eclipse (1930–41) • 7. Bloomsbury’s Offspring (1940s–).
About the Author
Jans Ondaatje Rolls is the author of Bosham Bisque and Chester Chowder. She is involved in fundraising for numerous charities and is an active supporter of Pallant House Gallery, Winston’s Wish and the Charleston Trust. Anne Chisholm is a biographer and critic. Among her many books are biographies of Nancy Cunard, Lord Beaverbrook and Rumer Godden.
