{"product_id":"cooking-alone","title":"Cooking Alone","description":"\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57315499508094,"sku":"NW9780571365791","price":9.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571365791.jpg?v=1778716283","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/cooking-alone","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}