Cooking In A Bedsitter

Cooking In A Bedsitter
Author: Katharine Whitehorn
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2011-06-02
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0748127445
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There is one powerful smell closely associated with the making of coffee in bedsitters. It is the smell of burning plastic, and will go away if you move the handle of the pot away from the flame. Legendary journalist Katharine Whitehorn's classic handbook of quick, simple meals - including Swedish Sausage Casserole, Lamb Tomato Quickie and Shrimp Wiggle - became the essential survival manual for the busy single person living in their first rented room. Whitehorn's trademark intelligent, practical and fabulously funny writing shines as brightly as ever, addressing the problems of 'cooking at ground level, in a hurry, with nowhere to put the salad but the washing-up bowl, which is in any case full of socks'. Delightful, entertaining and utterly indispensable. Praise for Katharine Whitehorn: 'A meteor: clever, funny, compassionate, insightful, beautiful' RACHEL COOKE 'Everyone grabbed the Observer to read her column on a Sunday morning' JILLY COOPER 'Wise, witty, mischievous' JAY RAYNER

Cooking Alone

Cooking Alone
Author: Kathleen Le Riche
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021-01-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780571365791
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The Career Woman (who buys a chicken as a treat) The Bedsitter (who experiments with newfangled gadgets) The Old Lady (who feeds her menagerie of pets) The Schoolboy Moocher (who makes toffee and wallows in grapes) The Bachelor (who learns to stockpile food) The Lonely Mother, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (who becomes a toast connoisseur) Meet the experts in cooking alone . . . Supper for one? Cooking Alone (1954) is a delicious miniature compendium of tales inspired by a cast of eccentric solitary characters. Brimming with entertaining anecdotes, recipes (rabbit with aubergine and prunes, anyone?) and top tips (ever wondered how to store ice cream in a bedsit?), Kathleen Le Riche is a witty, charming guide to the single life. Reissued with a new foreword by Bee Wilson, this vintage delight is a hymn to the pleasures of dining solo. 'A clever book, and amusing too. Somebody ought to bestow its author's name upon a sauce.' Belfast News Letter 'Every servantless man and woman should read her.' Truth 'Delightful . . . Ingenious.' Home and Country

Selective Memory

Selective Memory
Author: Katharine Whitehorn
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2011-06-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0748127550
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The witty and brilliant autobiography from legendary, beloved and groundbreaking journalist Katharine Whitehorn. 'A book to treasure for its wit, honesty, good sense and warm laughter' DAILY TELEGRAPH Q: A mother's place? A: In the wrong. Much loved for her frankness and humour, Katharine Whitehorn was a legendary journalist who pioneered the first of the personal columns. She told us how it really was. She was funny - and smart. SELECTIVE MEMORY, her autobiography, is about childhood, motherhood, marriage and of course her pioneering work on Fleet Street. Praise for Katharine Whitehorn: 'Everyone grabbed the Observer to read her column on a Sunday morning' JILLY COOPER 'Wise, witty, mischievous' JAY RAYNER 'A meteor: clever, funny, compassionate, insightful, beautiful' RACHEL COOKE

A Book for Cooks

A Book for Cooks
Author: Leslie Geddes-Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781858945798
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A stylish compendium of 100 of the world's best cookery books, from the seventeenth century to the present day.

The Dud Avocado

The Dud Avocado
Author: Elaine Dundy
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590174135
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A smart, funny classic about a young and beautiful American woman who moves to Paris determined to live life to the fullest. The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy’s Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Charming, sexy, and hilarious, The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status when it was first published and it remains a timeless portrait of a woman hell-bent on living. “I had to tell someone how much I enjoyed The Dud Avocado. It made me laugh, scream, and guffaw (which, incidentally, is a great name for a law firm).” –Groucho Marx "[The Dud Avocado] is one of the best novels about growing up fast..." -The Guardian

The Pauper's Cookbook

The Pauper's Cookbook
Author: Jocasta Innes
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780711235618
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Jocasta Innes shows that delicious and stylish cooking does not have to rely on expensive ingredients and that budget food does not mean simply opening a tin or a packet. Frugal and inventive tips on sensible shopping, using leftovers and creating home-made versions of store-bought favourites help to cut the costs at every stage.

A Cheetah's Tale

A Cheetah's Tale
Author: Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1784770698
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This charming autobiographical tale from Princess Michael of Kent tells of a girl growing up and the incredible bond that can exist between people and animals. Beautifully written by a natural storyteller and packed with fabulous photographs, it is also a wonderful portrait of Africa - the cheetah version of Born Free - and will delight readers worldwide. In the early 1960s, Marie Christine von Reibnitz (who would later become HRH Princess Michael of Kent) lived with her father on his farm in Mozambique. Then just a teenager, Princess Michael was entranced by the African landscape, by the wildlife and by the people she met. It was one of the happiest times of her life and she recounts that it was an orphaned cheetah cub (called Tess) who played a huge part in making it so. The relationship between the young Princess Michael and Tess, whom she hand-reared and later successfully released into the wild having trained her to hunt and survive on her own, will touch every reader's heart. The events of that period have remained with Princess Michael for the rest of her life and in A Cheetah's Tale she recalls not just the tale of Tess, but also the realities of life in Africa: from waking up in the middle of the night to find her father had just shot a lioness that was about to eat her to discovering a deadly Black Mamba curled up inside the loo! Tess was the inspiration for Princess Michael's lifelong interest in cheetah conservation and the epilogue covers some of her work as Patron of the Endangered Species Centre in South Africa and of the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia.

Building Adaptation

Building Adaptation
Author: James Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2006-08-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136425101
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As existing buildings age, nearly half of all construction activity in Britain is related to maintenance, refurbishment and conversions. Building adaptation is an activity that continues to make a significant contribution to the workload of the construction industry. Given its importance to sustainable construction, the proportion of adaptation works in relation to new build is likely to remain substantial for the foreseeable future, especially in the developed parts of the world. Building Adaptation, Second Edition is intended as a primer on the physical changes that can affect older properties. It demonstrates the general principles, techniques, and processes needed when existing buildings must undergo alteration, conversion, extension, improvement, or refurbishment. The publication of the first edition of Building Adaptation reflected the upsurge in refurbishment work. The book quickly established itself as one of the core texts for building surveying students and others on undergraduate and postgraduate built environment courses. This new edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to all the key issues relating to the adaptation of buildings. It deals with any work to a building over and above maintenance to change its capacity, function or performance.

The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris

The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
Author: Jenny Colgan
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1402281870
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"...a book which should be devoured in one sitting, along with a box of chocolates"—Sophie Kinsella, #1 New York Times bestselling author Award-winning author Jenny Colgan takes her charming romances to Paris in this heartwarming, bittersweet story of life, love and chocolate. Anna Trent may be a supervisor in a chocolate factory...but that doesn't necessarily mean she knows how to make chocolate. So when a fateful accident gives her the opportunity to work at the most elite chocolatier in Paris—Le Chapeau Chocolat—Anna expects to be outed as a fraud. After all, there is a world of difference between chalky, mass-produced English chocolate and the gourmet confections Anna's new boss creates. While she may never match him in the kitchen, Anna thinks she might be able to give him a second chance at love. And with a bit of luck and a lot of patience, Anna's learning that the sweetest things in life are always worth working for. Fans of British chick-lit authors Sophie Kinsella, Jennifer Weiner and Jill Mansell will be craving sweets along with this light-hearted rom-com of love lost and found. Also by Jenny Colgan: Meet Me at the Cupcake Café The Sweetshop of Dreams Praise for The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris: "[B]oth believable and funny, while the Parisian setting makes this story practically irresistible."—Shelf Awareness Reader "This cross-generational story is as irresistible as Colgan's portrayal of Paris itself—and all things chocolate."—Publishers Weekly "Heartwarming and funny..."—Booklist "A tale of two Englishwomen in Paris, of love lost and found... Gently and lovingly done."—Dear Author