Rachel Laudan

The link to the Jane Grigson Tribute

Cookbooks don’t travel well. So those who are not English may never have heard of Jane Grigson. That’s a pity. She was one of the great cookbook authors of the mid twentieth century. Like most people who have ended up the in the food world, that was not her original intention. [...]

Delia Smith, that is. If you don’t live in Great Britain, you’ve probably never heard of her. So you don’t know that when she did a television cooking show on how to boil an egg, 54 million more eggs than normal were sold in the next few days. Since the population of [...]