Binding: Paperback
Description: International Bestseller Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick * A Country Living Best Book of Fall * A Washington Post Best Feel - Good Book of the Year * One of the New York Times's Best Historical Fiction Novels of Fall In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor's A Memory of Violets and upstairs - downstairs stories Annabel Abbs the award - winning author of The Joyce Girl returns with the brilliant real - life story of Eliza Acton and her assistant as they revolutionized British cooking and cookbooks around the world. Before Mrs. Beeton and well before Julia Child there was Eliza Acton who changed the course of cookery writing forever. England 1835. London is awash with thrilling new ingredients from rare spices to exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them. When Eliza Acton is told by her publisher to write a cookery book instead of the poetry she loves she refuses until her bankrupt father is forced to flee the country. As a woman Eliza has few options. Although she's never set foot in a kitchen she begins collecting recipes and teaching herself to cook. Much to her surprise she discovers a talent and a passion for the culinary arts. Eliza hires young destitute Ann Kirby to assist her. As they cook together Ann learns about poetry love and ambition. The two develop a radical friendship breaking the boundaries of class while creating new ways of writing recipes. But when Ann discovers a secret in Eliza's past and finds a voice of her own their friendship starts to fray. Based on the true story of the first modern cookery writer Miss Eliza's English Kitchen is a spellbinding novel about female friend ship the struggle for independence and the transcendent pleasures and solace of food.
Title: Miss Eliza's English Kitchen A Novel Of Victorian Cookery And Friendship
Author(s): Abbs Annabel
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063066465
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/16/2021