The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes for Life, Love and Art

Part cookbook, part social and cultural history, this book takes us to the very centre of the Bloomsbury Group: the dining tables over which its members argued, debated, laughed and loved. With almost 300 recipes, this fresh and inventive volume will appeal to lovers of food and lovers of literature alike.

Contents List:

Foreword by Anne Chisholm; ‘The Charleston Trust’ by Virginia Nicholson; Introduction • 1. Before Bloomsbury (1890s–1904) • 2. Old Bloomsbury (1904–14) • 3. Bloomsbury in Wartime (1914–19) • 4. An Appetite for Bloomsbury (1920s) • 5. Bloomsbury and Abroad (1920s–1930s) • 6. Bloomsbury in Eclipse (1930–41) • 7. Bloomsbury’s Offspring (1940s–).

About the Authors:

Jans Ondaatje Rolls is the author of Bosham Bisque and Chester Chowder. She is involved in fundraising for numerous charities and is an active supporter of Pallant House Gallery, Winston’s Wish and the Charleston Trust. Anne Chisholm is a biographer and critic. Among her many books are biographies of Nancy Cunard, Lord Beaverbrook and Rumer Godden.