Linda Grant’s 2023 novel The Story of the Forest is a story about stories. Continue reading “Food and stories”
Food in the trenches
10 years ago a friend and I hosted a fundraising supper club on the theme of the First World War (which had broken out 100 years previously); all the food served had a connection with the Great War; you can read more about the supper club here Continue reading “Food in the trenches”
The chef as detective
A few years ago, I wrote a post on ‘Food and the crime novel’, focused on Agatha Christie’s clever mystery The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and the way a meal in that novel illustrates the deception which is a hallmark of crime fiction. Continue reading “The chef as detective”
Bread – take 2
Back in early 2015, the second year of this blog, I wrote about ‘bread’ in literature, focusing on one of the earliest novels in English, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which was published in 1719. Continue reading “Bread – take 2”