The Bloomsbury Cookbook

'A meticulous and lavishly illustrated account of the food of the Bloomsbury set ... summons up a lost world of meals on trays, milk puddings, gin slings and kedgeree' Sunday Times

The Bloomsbury Cookbook explores how the Bloomsbury Group fostered a fresh, creative, and vital way of living that encouraged debate and communication ("only connect"), often across the dining table. Gathered at these tables were many of the great figures in art, literature, and economics in the early twentieth century, including E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, J. M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia Woolf, among many others.

The Bloomsbury story is told in seven broadly chronological chapters, beginning in the 1890s and finishing in the very recent past. Each chapter comprises a series of narratives, many of which are enhanced with an appropriate recipe. The book also includes sketches, paintings, photographs, letters, and handwritten notes, featuring original quotations throughout.

Part cookbook, part social and cultural history, The Bloomsbury Cookbook will appeal to lovers of food and lovers of literature alike.