With Christmas being just over five weeks away, and faced with a quieter weekend than normal, it seemed an opportune moment to make this year’s Christmas cake. Continue reading “Christmas Cake – again”
Category: 20th century literature
Food and performance
In my last post I wrote about the three adopted sisters in Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes and how they seek to improve their fortunes through performance, both acting and dance. Continue reading “Food and performance”
Learning to cook
In the time I’ve been writing this blog (more than ten years now), I’ve only included one post about children’s literature: Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales with a Yuletide recipe for fudge. Continue reading “Learning to cook”
Counting calories in literature
However delicious food is, it comes with one significant downside for some of us, namely weight gain. The anxiety about eating – and putting on weight – is one usually (though not exclusively) experienced more by women than men, as a result of the societal pressures placed on women to maintain a particular body weight and shape. Continue reading “Counting calories in literature”