The Bloomsbury Cookbook

Recipes for Life, Love and Art

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'A meticulous and lavishly illustrated account of the food of the Bloomsbury set … summons up a lost world of meals on trays, milk puddings, gin slings and kedgeree' Sunday Times

Part cookbook, part social and cultural history, this book takes us to the very centre of the Bloomsbury Group: the dining tables over which its members argued, debated, laughed and loved. With almost 300 recipes, this fresh and inventive volume will appeal to lovers of food and lovers of literature alike.
Extent: 384 pp
Format: Paperback
Illustrations: 165
Publication date: 2024-07-25
Size: 23.5 x 16.9 cm
ISBN: 9780500297933
Foreword by Anne Chisholm; ‘The Charleston Trust’ by Virginia Nicholson; Introduction • 1. Before Bloomsbury (1890s–1904) • 2. Old Bloomsbury (1904–14) • 3. Bloomsbury in Wartime (1914–19) • 4. An Appetite for Bloomsbury (1920s) • 5. Bloomsbury and Abroad (1920s–1930s) • 6. Bloomsbury in Eclipse (1930–41) • 7. Bloomsbury’s Offspring (1940s–).

Press Reviews

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Nigella Lawson

A meticulous and lavishly illustrated account of the food of the Bloomsbury set … summons up a lost world of meals on trays, milk puddings, gin slings and kedgeree
Sunday Times

An enticing blend of cultural and gastronomic history
Times Literary Supplement

Glorious … a feast of eccentric detail
New Statesman

About the Authors

Jans Ondaatje Rolls is the author of Bosham Bisque and Chester Chowder. She is involved in fundraising for numerous charities and is an active supporter of Pallant House Gallery, Winston’s Wish and the Charleston Trust. Anne Chisholm is a biographer and critic. Among her many books are biographies of Nancy Cunard, Lord Beaverbrook and Rumer Godden.

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