IMAX Theatre at Bristol Aquarium, Anchor Rd, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TT | 1330-1430
Don’t miss this event for lovers of fine writing on food and cookery. The BBC’s Food Programme asks why writer and critic Jane Grigson slipped from the national consciousness for a while but now, 25 years on from her death, is being hailed as one of the greats. A very special panel of guests is being lined up for this programme.
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BBC Radio 4 Food Programme website
About Jane Grigson:
Jane Grigson was one of the leading cookery writers of her generation. She was brought up in the north-east of England and took an English degree at Cambridge in 1949. She then worked in art galleries and publishers’ offices and then as a translator. In 1966 she shared the John Florio prize for her translation of Beccaria’s Of Crime and Punishment.
Her first cookery book, Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery was the result of some time spent in France. In 1968 she began her long association with the ObserverColour Magazine for whom she wrote right up to her death: Good Things, Food With the Famous, The Observer Guides to European Cookery and To British Cookery were all based on this highly successful series.
Fish Cookery, English Food and The Mushroom Feast followed. Her last two books,Vegetable Book and Fruit Book both won the Glenfiddich Writer of the Year Award. She died in March 1990.