Food of Love: Cooking Up a Life Across Gender, Class and Race
By Sylvia Vetta
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One of only four girls from the 160 children in her primary school to pass the eleven plus, Sylvia Vetta was the first in her family to enjoy higher education and got to enjoy that post-WWII wonder: upward mobility.
Battling racism in Smethwick in the West Midlands during the most racist election in British history changed her
Sylvia Vetta
Freelance writer, author and speaker, Sylvia Vetta took up writing and broadcasting on art and antiques in 1998, when she began writing features for the award-winning magazine, The Oxford Times. She went on to write for numerous magazines on art, history and science-related events. Her long-running profile series, Oxford Castaways, has been compiled into three books. Sylvia has published two novels, Brushstrokes in Time, a fictionalised memoir of a member of the Stars Art Movement in China, and Sculpting the Elephant, an interracial romance set between Oxford and India. www.sylviavetta.co.uk
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