Some books call out to be included in my blog: replete with a range of dishes, sweet and savoury, with sufficient detail to enable me to make them in my own kitchen, it’s almost as though the author knew what I was up to! Continue reading “An Italian Feast”
Tag: When God was a rabbit
Food and tragedy
When something bad or upsetting happens our appetite is often quick to disappear. Food is frequently bound up with happy occasions and, when the inverse happens, the last thing we want to do is eat.
However, in Sarah Winman’s 2011 debut novel When God was a Rabbit, food and tragic or difficult events are often combined, creating what seems – initially at least – to be an unsettling effect. Continue reading “Food and tragedy”