Description
This enchanting book captured everybody’s attention last year when it was published in English for the first time.
A unique work of literary and culinary joie de vivre, part food memoir, part recipe book, French Cooking for One is Michèle Roberts’ first cookbook, and a contemporary and quirky take on Édouard de Pomiane’s ten-minute cooking classic.
With over 160 delicious recipes, the majority of which are vegetarian, combined with piquant storytelling and feminist wit, French Cooking for One is a working cook’s book with French flair, bursting with life and illustrated with the author’s original ink drawings, full of charm and humour.
More than a handbook of classic French dishes, French Cooking for One does something that few, if any, cookbooks do: it bears testimony to a singular literary life.
A former food columnist for the New Statesman, Michèle Roberts has always written about food and cookery in her novels and short stories. Half-French and half-English, she learned to cook at her grandparents’ home in Normandy. She is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels, including Daughters of the House (winner of the W.H.Smith Literary Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction). She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, a Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Xiaolu Guo joins us for the conversation. Xiaolu Guo is a highly regarded novelist, memoirist and filmmaker. She has published many books including the memoir Once Upon A Time In The East and the novel A Lover’s Discourse. Her recent nonfictions include Radical and My Battle of Hastings. Call Me Ishmaelle, a retelling of Melville’s Moby Dick, is her most recent novel, due out in March.
Ticket price includes a glass of wine or soft drink.