ckbk is partnering to promote the British Library’s 2022 Food Season which runs through April and May, which this year includes in person, online and hybrid events. The talks bring together leading names from the workd of food and cookbooks, including many authors whose books appear on ckbk. Below we showcase a few highlights from the programme.
Read MoreAnnabel Abbs’s new novel (Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen in the US and The Language of Food in the UK) tells the story of Eliza Acton, author of the ground-breaking Victorian cookbook Modern Cookery for Private Families (1845).
Abbs’s novel explores the creativity and joy of cooking and aims to bring Acton out of the archives and back into the public eye. The book is being made into a television miniseries by CBS in the US by Stampede Ventures, which will give Acton and her work some well-deserved limelight.
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