Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Eliza Acton, Pioneering Victorian Food Writer
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Annabel Abbs., & Annabel Abbs|AUTHOR. (2021). Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Eliza Acton, Pioneering Victorian Food Writer . William Morrow Paperbacks.

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Before Mrs. Beeton and well before Julia Child, there was Eliza Acton, who changed the course of cookery writing forever.
England 1837. Victorian London is awash with exciting new ingredients from spices to exotic fruits, but Eliza Acton has no desire to spend her days in the kitchen. Determined to be a poet and shamed by the suggestion she write a cookery book instead, she at first refuses to even consider the task. But then, her father is forced to flee the country for bankruptcy, shaming the family while leaving them in genteel poverty. As a woman, Eliza has few options, so she methodically collects recipes while teaching herself the mysteries of the kitchen. In addition, to her surprise, she discovers she is not only talented at cooking-she loves it.
To assist her, she hires seventeen-year-old Ann Kirby, the impoverished daughter of a war-injured father and a mother losing her grip on reality. Under Eliza's tutelage, Ann learns about poetry, cookery, and love, while unravelling a mystery in her mistress's past. Through the art of food, Eliza and Ann develop an unusual friendship and break the mold of traditional cookbooks by adding elegant descriptions and ingredient lists, which are still used today.
Told in alternate voices, this is an amazing novel of female friendship, the ensuring struggle for freedom, the quiet joy of cookery, and the place of food in creativity all while bringing Eliza Acton out of the archives and back into the public eye.
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