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Cooking the Books Episodes

  1.

    Much Depends on Dinner

    Canadian Margaret Visser whose most famous book on food doesn't contain a single recipe

  2. A Flavour of Diplomacy

    Cook and writer Alan Davidson who dedicated his culinary life to fish

  3. The Philosopher of Taste

    Elizabeth David helped revitalise home cooking in Britain

  4. A Pinch of Candor From Southern California

    Food writer MFK Fisher who invented the theory of gastro-planetary conjunction

  5. Brave New World

    The 1930s Italian writer FT Marinetti who dined and argued his way across Europe

  6. The Envoy of Belley

    The French 18th Century magistrate diner and writer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin