ALSO ON THE BOOKSHELF
Jan 20, 2022
2 minutes
WORDS BY RHIANNON DAVIES & MATT ELTON
FICTION
The Language of Food
by Annabel Abbs
(Simon & Schuster, 416 pages, £14.99)
Food, glorious food
When aspiring poet Eliza Acton was told that her future lay in cookery books, not sonnets, she was at first dismayed. But – despite her lack of culinary skills – she wrote the book her publisher wanted. With the help
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