{"product_id":"9780571365791-cooking-alone","title":"Cooking Alone","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSupper for one? Whether you're a career girl, eccentric bedsitter or wild bachelor, this witty gem is the essential guide to dining in solitude (with a new foreword by Bee Wilson).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSupper for one? Whether you're a career girl, bedsitter or bachelor, this vintage 1950s cookery gem introduced by Bee Wilson is \u003c\/b\u003e'\u003cb\u003ewonderful . funny and full of charm' (India Knight) with \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003elots of ideas worth nicking' (Rachel Cooke).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Career Woman\u003c\/b\u003e (who buys a chicken as a treat)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Bedsitter \u003c\/b\u003e(who experiments with newfangled gadgets)\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Old Lady\u003c\/b\u003e (who feeds her menagerie of pets)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Schoolboy Moocher \u003c\/b\u003e(who makes toffee and wallows in grapes)   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Bachelor \u003c\/b\u003e(who learns to stockpile food)\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet the experts in cooking alone .\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCooking Alone\u003c\/i\u003e (1954) is a delicious miniature compendium of tales inspired by a cast of eccentric solitary characters. Brimming with entertaining anecdotes, recipes (rabbit with aubergine and prunes, anyone?) and top tips (ever wondered how to store ice cream in a bedsit?), Kathleen Le Riche is a witty, charming guide to the single life. Reissued with a new foreword by\u003cb\u003e Bee Wilson,\u003c\/b\u003e this vintage delight is a hymn to the pleasures of dining solo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Every servantless man and woman should read her.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTruth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A clever book, and amusing too. Somebody ought to bestow its author's name upon a sauce.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Belfast News Letter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Delightful . Ingenious.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome and Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Remarkable. Aside from its wit and period charm, this is one of the very few cookbooks to recognise that the most important ingredient in the kitchen is the human . Nearly seventy years on, this still feels like a radical message.'\u003c\/b\u003e Bee Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Richly imagined . There is great tenderness and defiance in Le Riche's attention to the pleasures of the solitary cook.' \u003c\/b\u003eRebecca May Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is not just another cookery book; it is a \u003cb\u003etonic and a beacon\u003c\/b\u003e for the many who must and the few who wish to live alone.' \u003ci\u003eWine and Food\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33638606569569,"sku":"9780571365791","price":7.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36327680.jpg?v=1760736134","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571365791-cooking-alone","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}