Victory in the kitchen : the life of Churchill's cook
Gray, Annie (Food historian)2020
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Georgina Landemare saw herself as ordinary, although her accomplishments - and the life she lived - were anything but. She started her career as a nursemaid and ended it cooking for Winston Churchill, a man to whom food was central, not only as a pleasure by itself, but as a diplomatic tool in a time when the world was embroiled in a worldwide war. 'Victory in the Kitchen' is a culinary biography: a life lived through food, ranging from rural Berkshire to wartime London, via Belle Epoque Paris and prohibition-era New York.
Main title:
Victory in the kitchen : the life of Churchill's cook / Annie Gray.
Author:
Gray, Annie (Food historian), author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2020.
Collation:
391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Text on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781788160445 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.084092BLAN
Language:
English
Subject:
Landemare, Georgina, 1881 or 1882-1978Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Friends and associatesWomen cooks -- Great Britain -- BiographyCooks -- Great Britain -- BiographyGreat Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryBiographyBiography & non-fiction proseBiography: generalBiography: historical, political & militaryHistorySocial & cultural history
BRN:
486854