Cooking Alone
eBook - ePub

Cooking Alone

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eBook - ePub

Cooking Alone

About this book

Supper for one? Whether you're a career girl, bedsitter or bachelor, this vintage 1950s cookery gem introduced by Bee Wilson is ' wonderful ... funny and full of charm' (India Knight) including 'lots of ideas worth nicking' (Rachel Cooke)

The Career Woman (who buys a chicken as a treat)
The Bedsitter (who experiments with newfangled gadgets)
The Old Lady
(who feeds her menagerie of pets)
The Schoolboy Moocher (who makes toffee and wallows in grapes)
The Bachelor (who learns to stockpile food)
Meet the experts in cooking alone . . .


Cooking Alone (1954) is a delicious miniature compendium of tales inspired by a cast of eccentric solitary characters. Brimming with entertaining anecdotes, recipes (rabbit with aubergine and prunes, anyone?) and top tips (ever wondered how to store ice cream in a bedsit?), Kathleen Le Riche is a witty, charming guide to the single life. Reissued with a new foreword by Bee Wilson, this vintage delight is a hymn to the pleasures of dining solo.

'Every servantless man and woman should read her.' Truth

'A clever book, and amusing too. Somebody ought to bestow its author's name upon a sauce.' Belfast News Letter

'Delightful . . . Ingenious.' Home and Country

'Remarkable. Aside from its wit and period charm, this is one of the very few cookbooks to recognise that the most important ingredient in the kitchen is the human ... Nearly seventy years on, this still feels like a radical message.' Bee Wilson

'Richly imagined ... There is great tenderness and defiance in Le Riche's attention to the pleasures of the solitary cook.' Rebecca May Johnson

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9780571365807
Edition
0
Topic
Arte

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword by Bee Wilson
  7. I: Hunting the Incentive
  8. II: The Old Lady
  9. III: The Bachelor
  10. IV: The Bed-Sitter
  11. V: The Happy Potterer
  12. VI: The Grass Widower
  13. VII: The Career Woman
  14. VIII: The Convalescent
  15. IX: The Schoolboy Moocher and the Student
  16. X: The Lonely Mother
  17. Index
  18. About the Authors
  19. By the Same Author
  20. Copyright