Gathers descriptions of the culinary tastes and fashions among the Chinese, ancient Egyptians, Romans, medieval Europeans, and nineteenth-century Britains

Pleasures of the Table

THEODORA FITZGIBBON

Literature & Fiction

Oxford Univ. Pr.

A Taste of Wales

Macmillan

A taste of Yorkshire: Traditional Yorkshire food

'WITH LOVE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1938-46'

With hopes as high as their flying boat coursing about the clouds, Theodora and Constantine FitzGibbon arrived in Bermuda in search of the inspiration Constantine needed to write his novel. He found it, but the idyll of their first few months was not to last. The next thirteen years were full of parties and fun and laughter with friends - shattered hopes. They travelled from Bermuda to Capri and Rome and then to England, borrowing cottages, clothes and money, always just one step ahead of the creditors, waiting for the royalty cheque that never arrived, the bestseller that never happened. If the dream was the meetings with Norman Douglas, Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Henry Moore and Greta Garbo, the reality became the sullen silences or the swingeing blows when the front door closed, and Constantine's embarrassing infidelity.  'Completely fascinating ... Her writing style is every bit as vivid, witty and entertaining as she is in reality 'THE SUNDAY PRESS  'A delightful story, entertainingly written and makes fascinating reading' CORK EXAMINER "Now their loves lies a loss And love and his patients roar on a chain" DYLAN THOMAS

'LOVE LIES A LOSS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1946-59'

Century

Hardcover with dust jacket . 1968 124 p. 7.50 x 10.00 x 0.6. Period photographs specially prepared by George Morrison. There is something to catch the eye and what is more to whet the appetite

A Taste of Ireland: Irish Traditional Food.

Houghton, Mifflin Company

(Not just another recipe book about traditional Scottish fare. Many recipes are accompanied by sayings, poems or brief description of the background of the dish and its originating locality. Each recipe is also by a local history photograph which relates to the ingredients or its origin)

A Taste of Scotland: Her World Famous Recipes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

Avenel

Love lies a loss: An autobiography 1946-1959

A Taste of the Sea in Food and Pictures

David&Charles

'I have starved in some of the most beautiful places in the world . . .' The Irish Times food writer Theodora FitzGibbon's bohemian appetite for love, pleasure, good food and adventure took her all over the globe until she died, in Dublin, in 1991. Her two-volume autobiography reveals a life fully lived: the names she used before settling on 'Theodora'; the cookery lessons given to her by the former Queen Natalie of Serbia; the 1920s childhood spent on food-chomping travels with her rakish naval officer father in Europe, the Middle East and India. Paris in the 1930s was home to Theodora's struggles to maintain an independent life as a young actress, where she began an affair with photographer Peter Rose Pulham and kept company with Balthus, Cocteau, Dali and Picasso. She escaped wartime Paris to live in London during the Blitz and was friendly with Dylan and Caitlin Thomas, Augustus John, Francis Bacon, Shane Leslie and Soviet spy Donald Maclean. She adopted Gwladys the penguin and Mouche the poodle. She married Irish-American writer Constantine FitzGibbon in 1944 and divorced him fifteen famously stormy years later. In 1960 she married George Morrison, the film maker and archivist, and they lived together in Dalkey in the house with the 'sea at the bottom of the garden'. Be enthralled by the fascinating story behind the woman who broadened the culinary horizons of many people in Ireland and beyond. In this highly entertaining memoir, discover the sights, sounds and tastes of Theodora FitzGibbon - food writer, adventurer and thoroughly modern woman. 'Theodora FitzGibbon was the most extraordinary woman. If you read her autobiography you realise how many lives she led. And in fact how many people she was all rolled into one.' Maeve Binchy 'Oh to live a day in the life of Theodora FitzGibbon' - The Irish Times Magazine 'Long before Nigella Lawson or Mary Berry, there was Theodora FitzGibbon, model, actress, author and muse.' - Emily Hourican, Sunday Independent 'I can't recommend this book enough. It's part Austen, part Mitford and yet completely Theodora. What a dame.' - Domin Kemp, The Irish Times

A Taste of Love

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Gill Books / Gill & Macmillan Ltd.

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