Description
There is one powerful smell closely associated with the making of coffee in bedsitters. It is the smell of burning plastic, and will go away if you move the handle of the pot away from the flame.
Legendary journalist Katharine Whitehorn's classic handbook of quick, simple meals - including Swedish Sausage Casserole, Lamb Tomato Quickie and Shrimp Wiggle - became the essential survival manual for the busy single person living in their first rented room.
Whitehorn's trademark intelligent, practical and fabulously funny writing shines as brightly as ever, addressing the problems of 'cooking at ground level, in a hurry, with nowhere to put the salad but the washing-up bowl, which is in any case full of socks'. Delightful, entertaining and utterly indispensable.
Praise for Katharine Whitehorn:
'A meteor: clever, funny, compassionate, insightful, beautiful' RACHEL COOKE
'Everyone grabbed the Observer to read her column on a Sunday morning' JILLY COOPER
'Wise, witty, mischievous' JAY RAYNER
* The famous book - in print for over 40 years - in a new Virago edition
About the Author
Katharine Whitehorn grew up in London and studied at Cambridge. She has had distinguished career on Fleet Street; working for the Observer from 1960 to 1996 with stints at Picture Post and the Spectator among others. She died in 2021.
Reviews
Katharine Whitehorn was a meteor: clever, funny, compassionate, insightful, beautiful * Rachel Cooke *
Everyone grabbed the Observer to read her column on a Sunday morning * Jilly Cooper *
Katharine Whitehorn was wise, witty, mischievous * Jay Rayner *
Book Information
ISBN 9781844085682
Author Katharine Whitehorn
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Virago Press Ltd
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 160g
Dimensions(mm) 131mm * 200mm * 15mm
