Eliza Acton: Britain’s first modern cookery writer

05/24/22 • 40 min

Writer Annabel Abbs discusses poet and food writer Eliza Acton, the protagonist of her new historical novel The Language of Food. She tells Emma Slattery Williams about Acton’s story and how her legacy has been overshadowed by Mrs Beeton.

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05/24/22 • 40 min

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