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Victory in the Kitchen
Annie Gray
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard and enjoyed her life. But while Georgina Landemare saw herself as ordinary, her accomplishments were anything but. Georgina started her career as a nursemaid and ended it cooking for one of the best-known figures in British history: Winston Churchill.
To him, food was central, not only as a pleasure but as a diplomatic tool at a time when the world was embroiled in war.
With this eager eater and his skilled cook, ranging from rural Berkshire to wartime London, via Belle Epoque Paris and prohibition-era New York, Annie Gray shows how life in service - and food - changed during the huge upheavals of the twentieth century.
Rezensionen
Engaging ... appeals to three national obsessions: the preparation and presentation of food; the lost world of great households, above and below stairs; and the private life of a national hero, Churchill
The queen of food historians
Gray is an inventive researcher ... she likes to get close up to the everyday past
Gray writes with great authority, verve and confidence
Deliciously entertaining
Popular history at its very best
<i>Victory in the Kitchen</i> ... recreates a corner of early 20th-century domestic life
Annie Gray is a brilliant writer and scholar who brings a glorious combination of enthusiasm and greed to every subject she tackles. In the field of food history she leads the pack
Kundenbewertungen
female cooks, famous cooks, Churchill, 1914 - 1918, prime minister, famous chefs, female chefs, wartime food, eating habits of leaders, rationing, first world war