Speed reading: University cooking

24 September 2026, The Tablet

Divided into sections – Legacy Recipes, Cooking on a Tight Budget, Late Night Food etc. – each chapter is prefaced by an introduction interweaving family anecdote with gentle life lessons.

Cookbooks have long been parting gifts for quaking parents to give their undergraduate children, in the hope that they won’t live on takeaway pizzas or blow their loans on liquid sustenance. These three books should help anyone time-, space- and cash-poor begin their culinary adventures.

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