{"product_id":"michele-roberts-french-cooking-for-one","title":"Michele Roberts - French Cooking for One","description":"\u003cp\u003eA unique work of literary and culinary joie de vivre, part food memoir, part recipe book, French Cooking for One is Michèle Roberts' first cookbook, and a personal and quirky take on Édouard de Pomiane's ten-minute cooking classic. Once a food writer for the New Statesman, Roberts was born in 1949 and raised in a bilingual French-English household, learning to cook from her French grandparents in Normandy. Her love of food and cookery has always shone through in her novels and short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1771691855464_353\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore than a handbook of classic French dishes, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrench Cooking for One \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003edoes something that few, if any, cookbooks do: it bears testimony to a singular literary life. \u003c\/span\u003eGorgeously written vignettes of Roberts' childhood in Normandy and of her years living in Pays de la Loire are peppered with anecdotes about intellectual and artistic luminaries: an omelette prepared by Gertrude Stein's cook for Picasso; a simple pasta dish calling to mind the French philosopher Julia Kristeva and the Scottish poet Alison Fell; and Emma Bovary's extraordinary wedding cake, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eWith over 160 delicious recipes, the majority of which are vegetarian, combined with piquant storytelling and feminist wit, \u003cem\u003eFrench Cooking for One \u003c\/em\u003eis a working cook's book with French flair, bursting with life and illustrated with the author's \u003cspan\u003eoriginal ink drawings, full of charm and humour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePaperback original with French reverse flaps printed in two-tone stripes on the reverse\u003cbr\u003e190 x 130 x 12 mm, 152 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublished 7 November 2024\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-0686617-1-6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ensemble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52845868187991,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/6019\/7533\/files\/finalgrey.png?v=1771692400","url":"https:\/\/ensemble.biz\/products\/michele-roberts-french-cooking-for-one","provider":"Ensemble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}