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How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

How to Cook a Wolf (1942) by the inimitable M.F.K. Fisher is the book featured in this episode of Backlisted. Joining John and Andy to heed this call to culinary arms, written at a time of national crisis and thus exceptionally relevant to 2020, are journalist and food writer Felicity Cloake and author and adventurer Dan Richards. Also in this episode John has been delving into the backlist of Booker-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo with The Emperor's Babe (2001), while Andy enjoys Barry England's existential thriller Figures in a Landscape, shortlisted for the very first Booker Prize in 1969.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)9'50 - The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo16'01 - Figures in a Landscape by Barry England21'46 How to Cook a Wolf by MFK Fisher* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And the Yes, I'm going to have some willen now. Three minutes early.

0:14.0

Yes, I'm going to have some one now.

0:19.0

Three minutes early. Thanks everyone for doing this.

0:25.9

Felicity, where are you calling us from?

0:28.9

I'm calling you from my flat in North London, which has become all too familiar to me in the last four months.

0:40.0

So yeah, I can't sound very happy about that fact I'm afraid.

0:42.4

It's quite a nice flat, but I'm over it, as they say.

0:46.5

And you appear to be in a kitchen. Is that a Zoom backdrop? Or is that your kitchen?

0:52.0

If it were a zoom backdrop it would be

0:55.1

Nigel a Lawson's kitchen with a large marble island. No this is my

0:58.6

actual kitchen the extent of my kitchen. This is basically my flat you can see.

1:02.6

Oh I see you've had your flat converted into a kitchen.

1:05.1

It's just enormous kitchen.

1:06.7

I just sleep by the dishwasher. That's my life.

1:11.1

Dan, where are you?

1:12.4

I'm up in Edinburgh. So yeah, it's quite nice. It's the sun shining.

1:19.2

The sun's shining. The Scottish government unlike the English doesn't appear to want to kill us all

1:23.6

immediately so that's lovely. I went out for a walk today and bought some lovely wine

1:29.0

for this very you know very event and yeah it's all going quite well. So I've got wine you've got

1:35.4

wine John have you what you got in your flask I'm afraid what I've just got water in my

1:39.6

flask but I might get I might have to I might have to remedy that one of the one of my hand my young servants might bring me one in a moment

1:48.0

If I knock on the floor they'll know oh dad wants his beer

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