August 2014 |
Mrs. Dalloway's Dinner

If you wish to make Mrs. Dalloway's dinner, for example, listed here are the ingredients and directions for cucumber vichyssoise, mayonnaise of cold salmon, chicken in aspic, chocolate ice cream, and homemade gateau de pommes. Among the other nearly 300 recipes are Strachey's rice pudding, Vita's [Vita Sackville-West] magnificent Strasbourg pie, Monk's House tea, Hogarth Eccles cakes, Armistice chocolate cream, and marrow and ginger jam.
It's a fresh approach, and one that appeals to both cookbook enthusiasts and lovers of Edwardian and WWI-era English literature. Plus, the book itself is lovely--a generous hardcover with purple endpapers and a ribbon marker, featuring 165 illustrations of artwork by those in the Bloomsbury circle, photographs of them, and original art by British designer (and granddaughter of Vanessa Bell), Cressida Bell.