The Good Plain Cook
Upstairs, Downstairs in rural bohemia - love, lust, class, and cooking.
Upstairs, Downstairs in rural bohemia - love, lust, class, and cooking.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781846686658 (1846686652)
Publish date: November 1st 2009
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
An aga saga that left me on cold-cutsIt’s the long, hot summer of 1936 and Kitty Allen has just been employed as a ‘good plain cook’ at the Sussex cottage of the rich American bohemian Ellen Steinberg’s. Innocent Kitty is shocked and fascinated by the unconventional household, which consists of Elle...
Bethan Roberts has written a nice book here. It's not a masterpiece or even a page turner (not for me anyway) but she creates a good straightforward story with believable characters. Kitty is a young woman who takes up a position as 'a good plain cook'. Her master and mistress are far from troublefr...
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