The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes for Life, Love and Art

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Review Unlike any other cookbook this year, this is a meticulous and lavishly illustrated account of the food of the Bloomsbury set. --The Sunday TimesWorks well in both kitchen and armchair. Luxuriously produced, it is packed with entertaining stories of Bloomsbury eccentricities, and illustrations remind you of the considerable talents of Grant and Vanessa Bell. I'd sooner have this ancient haul from WC1 than any glossy new tome from a TV cook. --The GuardianA compendium full of recipes, food-related paintings and biographical anecdotes ... casts the Bloomsberries in a new light and brings them to life. --BBC.comWoolf it down. --Elle DecorationA delicious glimpse of the gastronomy of the Bloomsbury Group ... a treasure trove of lunches, dinners, celebratory feasts, descriptions of gastronomic treats, and umpteen recipes. --The IndependentExceptionally beautiful, filled with paintings and drawings by the Bloomsbury Group themselves ... This is the most endearing and enjoyable book yet about the Bloomsbury Group. --Country LifeAn enticing blend of cultural and gastronomic history. --Times Literary SupplementDelicious ... the literary equivalent of a fantasy dinner party with the writers, poets, painters and philosophers who comprised the Bloomsbury set ... offers a completely fresh insight into their characters and appetites both gastronomic and otherwise. --TwinFactory.co.ukCasts a fascinating new light on Bloomsbury ... this book will enable you to create some simply splendid meals, which will encourage conversation today, just as they did when poets, philosophers and writers of yesteryear sat together to talk of cabbages and kings and put the world to rights. --Oxford TimesCivilization as they knew it seemed to be coming to an end - and with it, all the elegant meals, conversational dinners and epoch-making risottos that had fueled their discourse since the turn of the century, and which this richly entertaining book movingly chronicles. --The IndependentMy find of the year so far is The Bloomsbury Cookbook ... I had not thought there was anything more to be said on the subject of the Bloomsburys and their habits. But Jans Ondaatje Rolls illuminates corners others have not thought to visit - the dark shelves of the pantry, the final blurry moments of a dinner party, the tray brought quietly to an invalid and as a result, they start to seem vastly more likeable. --Observer Food Monthly, Rachel CookeHer's is a sprightly approach - a social history, witty and erudite ... The Bloomsbury Cookbook is lavishly illustrated with works by the Bloomsberries themselves. --The Spectator, Henrietta GarnettLuxuriously produced, it is packed with entertaining stories of Bloomsbury eccentricities. --The IndependentGlorious ... a feast of eccentric detail. --The New StatesmanA gorgeous illustrated cookbook which certainly deserves a place in any hall of fame where gastronomes worship ... if you enjoy comedy in the kitchen, this is the book for you. --Western Mail and The Birmingham PostA witty and erudite social history which will appeal to lovers of food and literature alike ... exquisitely produced. --Sussex LifeGoes where no biography has gone before: into the kitchen. Jans Ondaatje Rolls gets to the heart of the group by looking at what they put in their stomachs, and the result is a smorgasbord of 300 recipes, scores of beautifully reproduced pictures, and zillions of extracts from their letters, diaries, and various books which describe tastes, ingredients and the joy of a good feed. In page after delicious page, 50 years of soup, salmon and friendship unfurl. --The Daily TelegraphNeed this book. --Nigella Lawson, TwitterNeed this book --Nigella Lawson, Twitter About the Author Jans Ondaatje Rolls is the author of the cookbooks Bosham Bisque and Chester Chowder.