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In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life

In these thirteen evocative and elegant essays, contemporary writers discuss food, family, love and loss. Rachel Roddy unspools her life in the cookers that she’s conjured up food on in A Life in Cookers. Joel Golby’s gloriously funny Who Are You When No One Is Watching riffs on the revelation that “the deepest and darkest crevices of you – your true and real nature,” are made plain by your choices at the breakfast buffet, while Ella Risbridger’s beautiful

Cupboard Love is a celebration of love – “The kind of love that’s most at home in the kitchen; a domestic kind of love; an intimate, easy, buttery kind of love.” (Daunt Books)