California Calling
Posted on Saturday 10th October, 2026
Nearly forty years ago, a woman living in a halfway house started working in a cookery book shop in Notting Hill. Not long sober and recovering from a decade in
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Elizabeth David and Mrs Woolf Bake Bread
Posted on Friday 2nd October, 2026
A visitor to the small garden of London’s Guildhall Library in the mid-seventies might well have noticed a piece of string tied to a tree leading to a small pond.
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Elizabeth David’s Journalism: A Partial Bibliography
Posted on Saturday 26th September, 2026
Elizabeth David worked for a number of publications, starting with her first article, ‘Rice Again’ in ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ in 1949. She would then write for a range of newspapers such
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Two Elizabeths
Posted on Friday 25th September, 2026
In 1949, that strange entr’acte period between the end of the Second World War and the beginning of England’s second Elizabethan age, times were changing for two women in different
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Elizabeth David in España
Posted on Friday 25th September, 2026
There are good years and bad years, and then there are those in which lives change irreversibly, for better or worse. 1963 was such a year for Elizabeth David. Overworked
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Spoilt For Salad
Posted on Monday 31st August, 2026
Elizabeth David was not an admirer of her fellow countrymen and women when it came to salads. In fact, she outright condemned them, even writing in her fourth book, ‘Summer
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