Food Writing 2010

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2011

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sheila Dillon traces the legacy of Elizabeth David's more scholarly work and reviews food writing in 2010 with blogger and critic Tim Hayward, photographer Jason Lowe and publisher Anne Dolamore. We hear from Elizabeth David's literary Executor Jill Norman about the shift in her work from recipe-driven writing in her early career to the later, more academic books and debate who has taken on her legacy of more scholarly food writing today.

Producer: Elaine Lester.

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