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Cooking the Books Episodes Available now
Much Depends on Dinner
Canadian Margaret Visser whose most famous book on food doesn't contain a single recipe
A Flavour of Diplomacy
Cook and writer Alan Davidson who dedicated his culinary life to fish
The Philosopher of Taste
Elizabeth David helped revitalise home cooking in Britain
A Pinch of Candor From Southern California
Food writer MFK Fisher who invented the theory of gastro-planetary conjunction
Brave New World
The 1930s Italian writer FT Marinetti who dined and argued his way across Europe
The Envoy of Belley
The French 18th Century magistrate diner and writer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin