Product Description
Around the Table: 52 Essays on Food & Life (Hardcover)
Author: Diana Henry
Format: Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
For Diana’s many admirers, her evocative writing about places, people and food brings just as much pleasure as her delicious recipes. Around the Table is a beautiful collection of some of Diana’s very best essays, handpicked from more than two decades of her beloved cookbooks.
Moving, funny and incisive, together these pieces form a memoir through food.
‘One of her finest books yet.’ — Bee Wilson, the Sunday Times
‘Diana Henry stands alongside Nigella Lawson and Nigel Slater as a writer whose prose is as nourishing as her recipes…Wonderful stuff.’ — Tony Turnbull, The Times
‘Diana Henry’s food writing is a gift…I so loved reading this book. It is poignant, funny, and just plain great.’ — Stanley Tucci
‘Lyrical…radiant…timeless. A dazzling collection.’ — Nigel Slater
‘Diana Henry is thrillingly alive to both the poetry and the practicalities of food, and reading her is a nourishing, resonant pleasure in itself.’ — Nigella Lawson
‘It is completely wonderful, rich, lyrical, moving and incredibly hungry-making – I couldn’t recommend it more highly. In fact I can think of few better books, in any genre, to curl up with as the nights draw in.’ — India Knight
‘An all too rare blend of sensible and sensuous writing on food. Up there with Elizabeth David’s An Omelette and a Glass of Wine, this book will last.’ — Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses
‘Diana writes like a dream’ — Daily Mail
‘The food writers’ food writer’ — Mark Diacono
‘A table is where we eat and talk, where we connect…What and how we eat remains a source of constant fascination to me, as is how particular ingredients spread across the world. I want to make links and trace patterns. Food is about history, geography, our habits, imagination and how we relate to each other.’ — Diana Henry
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