Tom Lake, the latest novel by the American writer Ann Patchett, is a story about families and relationships, about finding the value in the everyday and understanding what really matters. Continue reading “Food as legacy”
Category: 21st century literature
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”
A Woman’s Lot in Renaissance Italy
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.
Food and the pastoral
In 2015 James Rebank’s The Shepherd’s Life was published to great acclaim. The book describes the way of life of shepherds in the Lake District, as practised by Rebanks himself, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. Continue reading “Food and the pastoral”