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In Culinary Pleasures, Nicola Humble serves up a fascinating history of Britain's culinary evolution through the cookbooks which have inspired us over the course of a century, from Mrs Beeton to the rise of celebrity TV chefs.

About the Author

Nicola Humble is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University. She has co-edited a volume of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management for Oxford University Press, and has also written The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism.