In my previous existence as a secondary school English teacher I frequently taught Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess to my GCSE classes – click here to read the poem.
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From blog post to plate
Whilst my blog is grounded in cooking that I actually do, inspired by the plays, novels and poems I have read, I suspect that, for the vast majority of my readers, my blog provides them with reading matter (rather than with recipes). Continue reading “From blog post to plate”
Food and memory loss
On more than one occasion I’ve blogged about the role of memory in accounts of food and eating in literature. From the narrator’s memories of delicious childhood teas at his best friend’s house in Michael Frayn’s Spies, to Flora Thompson’s memories of the food practices of her native Oxfordshire in the early 20th century in her autobiography Lark Rise to Candleford, food plays a significant role in writers’ and characters’ memories of the past. Continue reading “Food and memory loss”
Christmas Cake: the final touches
And then, at tea…the ice cake loomed in the centre of the table like a marble grave. (Dylan Thomas, A Child’s Christmas in Wales)