Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food

A captivating exploration and celebration of the flowering of English cooking in the 1920s and 30s * Financial Times *
A treasury of social gossip … immensely enjoyable and useful * Spectator *
That rare thing, a cookery book with an argument: viz, that English cookery was once both good and independent of the cuisines of her neighbours … a rollicking good read * Observer *
A book which celebrates a gastronomy which we would be unwise to forget. It’s a rediscovery of British food remembered from before the War * Derek Cooper *
I recommend it, not only for its excellent food but also for the superb introductions and details of social history in the great houses with their shimmering hostesses * Evening Standard *

Arabella Boxer was born in 1934 and educated in the UK, Paris and Rome. She has written for the Sunday Times magazine and the Telegraph magazine and was Food Writer for Vogue from 1966 to 1968 and 1975 to 1991. She was awarded the Glenfiddich Cookery Writer of the Year Award in 1975 and 1978, a Glenfiddich Special Award in 1992 and won the 1991 Andre Simon Award and the 1992 Michael Smith Macallan Award for fine writing about British food. Arabella Boxer is the author of a number of cookery books, including First Slice Your Cookbook, Arabella Boxer’s Garden Cookbook, Mediterranean Cookbook, The Sunday Times Complete Cookbook and A Visual Feast (with Tessa Traeger). A founding member of the Guild of Food Writers, she lives in London.

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