The Dinner Table
Over 100 Writers on Food
1st Edition
Published on 12. October 2023
720 pages
978-1-80454-738-0 (ISBN)
Description
'A gorgeous collection: if you savour words quite as much as food, this is for you!' NIGELLA LAWSON
A deliciously moreish collection of the finest pieces of writing on food.
In this big, beautiful anthology, award-winning writers Kate Young and Ella Risbridger present you with their ultimate fantasy dinner party. Here you'll find over 100 authors, cooks and poets, from Laurie Colwin, Salman Rushdie and Jack Underwood, to Rachel Roddy, Audre Lorde and Nigella Lawson.
The individual pieces in The Dinner Table each have something to say to their neighbours on either side; just like a real-life dinner party, the collection is designed to flow from one topic to the next. You'll discover old friends as well as new, discussing eggs, bread, fridge-raid suppers, wedding feasts and much, much more.
With pieces taken from newspapers and novels, magazines and memoirs, private letters and public statements, you can dip into The Dinner Table for one piece or twenty. Pop in for a drink, or stay until the tables are cleared away. Stay for coffee, and stay for breakfast.
Contributors include...
Naomi Alderman * Maya Angelou * Yémisí Aríbisálà * Jane Austen * Anthony Bourdain * Angela Carter * Laurie Colwin * Jimi Famurewa * Helen Fielding * Ross Gay * Amitav Ghosh * Diana Henry * Shirley Jackson * Madhur Jaffrey * James Joyce * Kevin Kwan * Nigella Lawson * Min Jin Lee * Audre Lorde * Samin Nosrat * Sylvia Plath * Rachel Roddy * Salman Rushdie * Sathnam Sanghera * Nigel Slater * Toni Tipton-Martin * Bryan Washington * Sarah Waters * Virginia Woolf * Michelle Zauner
A deliciously moreish collection of the finest pieces of writing on food.
In this big, beautiful anthology, award-winning writers Kate Young and Ella Risbridger present you with their ultimate fantasy dinner party. Here you'll find over 100 authors, cooks and poets, from Laurie Colwin, Salman Rushdie and Jack Underwood, to Rachel Roddy, Audre Lorde and Nigella Lawson.
The individual pieces in The Dinner Table each have something to say to their neighbours on either side; just like a real-life dinner party, the collection is designed to flow from one topic to the next. You'll discover old friends as well as new, discussing eggs, bread, fridge-raid suppers, wedding feasts and much, much more.
With pieces taken from newspapers and novels, magazines and memoirs, private letters and public statements, you can dip into The Dinner Table for one piece or twenty. Pop in for a drink, or stay until the tables are cleared away. Stay for coffee, and stay for breakfast.
Contributors include...
Naomi Alderman * Maya Angelou * Yémisí Aríbisálà * Jane Austen * Anthony Bourdain * Angela Carter * Laurie Colwin * Jimi Famurewa * Helen Fielding * Ross Gay * Amitav Ghosh * Diana Henry * Shirley Jackson * Madhur Jaffrey * James Joyce * Kevin Kwan * Nigella Lawson * Min Jin Lee * Audre Lorde * Samin Nosrat * Sylvia Plath * Rachel Roddy * Salman Rushdie * Sathnam Sanghera * Nigel Slater * Toni Tipton-Martin * Bryan Washington * Sarah Waters * Virginia Woolf * Michelle Zauner
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-80454-738-0 (9781804547380)
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Ella Risbridger is a writer and editor, mostly found in a pink kitchen in South London. She writes cookbooks, children's books, poems, articles and honestly, a whole bunch of stuff. Her debut food book Midnight Chicken was a Sunday Times Book of the Year 2019, Guild Of Food Writers General Cookbook of the Year, and an Amazon bestseller in both hardback and paperback. Ella likes poems, cats and gardens. @EllaRisbridger
Kate Young is an award-winning food writer, cook and bookworm. Her Little Library cookbooks (The Little Library Cookbook, The Little Library Year, and The Little Library Christmas) feature food inspired by famous and beloved and occasionally obscure works of literature. When not writing, Kate caters weddings and private events, and works behind the counter in her local bookshop. She is based in the English countryside.
Kate Young is an award-winning food writer, cook and bookworm. Her Little Library cookbooks (The Little Library Cookbook, The Little Library Year, and The Little Library Christmas) feature food inspired by famous and beloved and occasionally obscure works of literature. When not writing, Kate caters weddings and private events, and works behind the counter in her local bookshop. She is based in the English countryside.
Content
- Intro
- Also in the anthology series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Introduction
- I Capture the Castle
- Dodie Smith
- Hadza Honey, from Eating to Extinction
- Dan Saladino
- Memoirs of an Arabian Princess From Zanzibar
- Salamah bint Saïd
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys
- Samuel Pepys
- All You Have Eaten: On Keeping a Perfect Record
- Rachel Khong
- We That Are Young
- Preti Taneja
- Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible
- Madhur Jaffrey
- Vanity Fair
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
- Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner
- Empireland
- Sathnam Sanghera
- Brick Lane
- Monica Ali
- Tipping the Velvet
- Sarah Waters
- The Joy of Snacks
- Laura Goodman
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Michael Chabon
- Disobedience
- Naomi Alderman
- The Book of Jewish Food
- Claudia Roden
- Salt & Time
- Alissa Timoshkina
- Aspic, from Aetherial Worlds
- Tatyana Tolstaya
- Recipes for Sad Women
- Héctor Abad Faciolince
- Mrs Dalloway
- Virginia Woolf
- Elizabeth David: English Bread and Yeast Cookery
- Angela Carter
- Your Perfected Hostess
- Elizabeth David
- Hello, Roberto
- Helen Rosner
- What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking
- Abby Fisher
- Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds
- Ymisí Aríbisálà
- Making Menudo with my Abuela
- Jené Gutierrez
- Love, Loss and Kimchi
- Michelle Zauner
- The Joy Luck Club
- Amy Tan
- Building Community
- Memuna Konteh
- The Price of Rice
- Su Hwang
- Epiphany in the Beans, from Braiding Sweetgrass
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
- Maya Angelou
- Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking
- Toni Tipton-Martin
- The Hours
- Michael Cunningham
- A Pair of Silk Stockings
- Kate Chopin
- Refined and elegant things, from The Pillow Book
- Sei Shonagon
- Millions of Strawberries
- Genevieve Taggard
- Goblin Market
- Christina Rossetti
- Beeton's Book of Household Management
- Mrs Beeton
- The Groundnut Cookbook
- Duval Timothy, Folayemi Brown and Jacob Todd
- Oranges
- John McPhee
- Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
- Olivia Potts
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Shirley Jackson
- Midnight's Children
- Salman Rushdie
- Little Women
- Louisa May Alcott
- What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking
- Abby Fisher
- Pachinko
- Min Jin Lee
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Kevin Kwan
- Market, from Settlers: Journeys through the food, faith and culture of Black African London
- Jimi Famurewa
- Introduction, from Nose to Tail Eating
- Anthony Bourdain
- Nose to Tail Eating
- Fergus Henderson
- Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
- Colin Grant
- Lark Rise to Candleford
- Flora Thompson
- Ulysses
- James Joyce
- Embroideries
- Marjane Satrapi
- Sea of Poppies
- Amitav Ghosh
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Lewis Carroll
- The Garden Party
- Katherine Mansfield
- Tiny Moons
- Nina Mingya Powles
- The Island Kitchen
- Selina Periampillai
- Unearthed
- Claire Ratinon
- The Book of Delights
- Ross Gay
- Marriage
- Luisa Muradyan
- Inviting a Friend to Supper
- Ben Jonson
- Early Morning Riser
- Katherine Heiny
- Dishwashing
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- On Washing Dishes
- The Readers of The Sun Magazine
- Here I Am, Washing Dishes Again
- Shirley Jackson
- Excerpts from Memorial
- Bryan Washington
- A Single Man
- Christopher Isherwood
- I promise when I lift your egg
- Jack Underwood
- Two Kitchens
- Rachel Roddy
- Emma
- Jane Austen
- P is for Peas, from An Alphabet for Gourmets
- M. F. K. Fisher
- The Time Traveller's Wife
- Audrey Niffenegger
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- Helen Fielding
- Such a Fun Age
- Kiley Reid
- A Christmas Carol
- Charles Dickens
- The Christmas Chronicles
- Nigel Slater
- The Little Library Christmas
- Kate Young
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
- Audre Lorde
- The Bell Jar
- Sylvia Plath
- The Recipe Cards of Sylvia Plath
- Sylvia Plath
- Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant, from Home Cooking
- Laurie Colwin
- A Room of One's Own
- Virginia Woolf
- Marie
- Madeleine Bourdouxhe
- How to Eat a Peach
- Diana Henry
- The Year of Miracles
- Ella Risbridger
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
- Samin Nosrat
- Among the Bedouins, A Knife is Never Just a Knife
- Diana Abu-Jaber
- The Flavour Thesaurus
- Niki Segnit
- What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking
- Abby Fisher
- How to Eat
- Nigella Lawson
- A Small Boy and Others
- Henry James
- On the Road
- Jack Kerouac
- Foodists
- John Bayley
- Black Sea
- Caroline Eden
- Dead Souls
- Nikolai Gogol
- Summer Kitchens
- Olia Hercules
- Be My Guest
- Priya Basil
- Acknowledgements
- Extended Copyright
- About the Editors
- An Invitation from the Publisher
