tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post7375693985380128003..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Food, Glorious Food! - Celia ReesMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-22260160974230498702020-11-07T10:41:06.896+00:002020-11-07T10:41:06.896+00:00Enjoyed the book hugely, Celia. I was born in the ...Enjoyed the book hugely, Celia. I was born in the war and remember post war rationing and a very different life growing up in the late forties and fifties. So many writers get the atmosphere, the clothes, the relationships and women's expectations and place in society wrong but you are spot on! Rosemary Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02817308798576666431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-55713863369669848592020-11-06T11:26:41.272+00:002020-11-06T11:26:41.272+00:00Thank you, both. Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbo...Thank you, both. Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook was one of those books one feels compelled to write. Like many 'works in progress' it went through many vicissitudes and difficulties but I would never, never give up on it. All I had to do was think of those hand written recipes and go back and work harder to turn it into the best book I could write. I knew as soon as I opened that old recipe books and saw those carefully clipped recipes and their different hand writing that here was something I had to write about.It took 15 years but sometimes writing is like that. Celia Reeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05059549379622664741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-86402167116528355832020-11-06T10:17:07.920+00:002020-11-06T10:17:07.920+00:00This is such a wonderful story, Celia. I love all ...This is such a wonderful story, Celia. I love all the connections with your grandmother, aunt and your mother and that their handwritten recipes represent correspondence between them all. The recipe for peppermint creams brings back happy memories of my own mother's kitchen!<br /><br />Most of all, I absolutely loved 'Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook'. Such a gripping read and I found myself willing on Edith every step of the way. You stayed true to her character as a school teacher (I particularly enjoyed those details as a teacher myself!) but skilfully portrayed her alter ego in a convincing and compelling narrative. Congratulations!<br /><br />Caroline K. Mackenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689485624657486564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-50482024497831341332020-11-06T09:37:39.758+00:002020-11-06T09:37:39.758+00:00I have an ancient, falling apart cookery book too,...I have an ancient, falling apart cookery book too, which belonged to my mother. I think it dates to just after WW2, when rationing was still in force. It lists things like dried milk and dried eggs among the ingredients and has many nifty things to do with turnips.<br />But my book, sadly, has never inspired anything as wonderful as 'Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook'!<br />Hope it sells a million!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.com