{"product_id":"kitchen-essays","title":"Kitchen Essays","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/h_harvey_the_tea_table.jpg?v=1593034247\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e264pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155189\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'An enchanting period piece and, in its own quirky intelligent way, a culinary gem' (Nigella Lawson)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring 1921-2 (the now) Lady Jekyll wrote unsigned essays for \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e with titles such as 'Tray Food' and 'Sunday Supper', 'For the Two Fat' and 'For the Too Thin', all of which are contained in \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKitchen Essays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. Recipes are interspersed with her delightful comments, for example an excellent and very simple recipe for Caraway Tea Bread in 'Tea-Time and Some Cakes' is prefaced: \"The true spiritual home of the teapot is surely in a softly-lighted room between a deep armchair and a sofa, two cups only, awaiting their fragrant infusion, whilst the clock points nearer to six than five, and a wood fire flickers sympathetically on the hearth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe author of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKitchen Essays\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1922) was sister-in-law to the great Gertrude Jekyll, whose biographer wrote that if she 'was an artist-gardener, then Agnes was an artist-housekeeper.' Agnes was a famous hostess (the guests at her first dinner party included Browning, Ruskin and Burne-Jones) and her home, Munstead House, 'was the apogee of opulent comfort and order without grandeur, smelling of pot-pourri, furniture polish and wood smoke'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as a Persephone Classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe endpapers show a 1922 design by the painter George Sheringham called 'Clusters of stylised fruits, flowers and shell motifs', a domestic design with a hint both of the pastoral and the abstract.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Tea Table by Harold Harvey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Agnes Jekyll","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098756567347,"sku":"smd1789694420150","price":28.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098756600115,"sku":"olu1789694420151","price":29.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098756632883,"sku":"doi1789694420152","price":31.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098756665651,"sku":"okb1789694420153","price":51.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/kitchen-essays_1.jpg?v=1789694424","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/kitchen-essays","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}