Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
Not all the recipes are good but they kept me alive. Meanwhile, the advice – how a well-regulated household would recognise that socks hanging on the doorknob intimated that sexual relations were in progress within – went far beyond cooking
On to Katharine Whitehorn
None of these books competes however as the most influential in my life. One that does is Katharine Whitehorn’s Cooking in a Bedsitter. Sent at the age of 18 to teach English to newly arrived immigrants in Bradford, this was the book that accompanied me into my bedsit – basin, gas ring, tiny fridge. Not all the recipes are good but they kept me alive. Meanwhile, the advice – how a well-regulated household would recognise that socks hanging on the doorknob intimated that sexual relations were in progress within – went far beyond cooking. It was not just a textbook of recipes but a recipe book for life.
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Lord David Lipsey is a journalist and Labour peer. He was adviser to British Prime Minister James Callaghan in the 1970s and a member of the Jenkins Committee on Electoral Reform, the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care of the Elderly and the Davies Panel on the BBC licence fee. His book The Secret Treasury was published in 2000. His racing novel Counter Coup is awaiting publication.
