13 March 2014, The Tablet

Cooking People: the writers who taught the English how to eat

by Sophia Waugh

Tasty but not nourishing

 
Reviewed by Melanie McDonaghQUARTET, 320pp, £20Tablet bookshop price £18                   Tel 01420 592974Sophia Waugh is the daughter of Auberon and the granddaughter of Evelyn, and she has inherited the literary gene of that marvellously prolific family. In her case, it has manifested itself in novels and a biography of Marina, Duchess of Kent, and in this compilation of the lives and works of women cookery writers. They range from Hannah Woolley (“the first woman in England to have put her name to a book and to have made a living from books”) to Elizabeth David, who influenced the food her mother made and her family ate. Indeed, Sophia Waugh herself anticipated the explosi
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