Janet Theophano

I want to say that I loved this one...in parts I certainly did...but it was a bit dry. The idea though that cookbooks tell us so much about their owners is exciting....that such complex stories can be told by notations and scraps tucked into an old cookery book might not have been a fully clear idea to me before, though obvious in hindsight. How the author clearly loved her research, and found such personality in each piece she discovered, is beautiful...I do wish though that she had gone a little deeper...perhaps she couldn't and I understand what is lost to time, but the is the fact that she had an agenda, almost a slant if you will, that she emphasized over the individual stories. I will look at cookbooks in used bookshops with new eyes now.… (meer)