The Bloomsbury Cookbook

One week-end, when Virginia and Leonard were staying at Asheham, I walked over from Charleston to stay the night with them. When I arrived, Virginia said that she did not know what we could have for supper because the woman who came in cook for them was ill. I suggested that I made some scrambled eggs. Virginia was amazed and said, "Can you really cook scrambled eggs?" (sid 102)

Julklapp till mig själv: Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes for Life, Love and Art av Jans Ondaatje Roll, en bok som kommer att räcka över juldagarna och även nästa jul. Många ledande personer i konst, litteratur och ekonomi i början av 1900-talet: E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, J. M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey och Virginia Woolf satt vid bordet och diskuterade. Varje kapitel innehåller en serie berättelser med ett lämpligt recept, tillsammans med skisser, målningar, fotografier, brev och handskrivna anteckningar och citat. Kokbok med kulturhistoria, en bok till dem som älskar mat och litteratur.

"Virginia Woolf was a great walker. When in London, most afternoons she walked around Bloomsbury, through the parks, along Oxfoord Street and in and out of the market stalls around Covent Garden. In Sussex she would stride out purposefully with her walking stick, heading north or south along the banks of the River Ouse, over the Downs, sometimes even across the meadows to Lewes, to fetch a chicken for dinner." (sid 288)