''A meticulous and lavishly illustrated account of the food of the Bloomsbury set ... summons up a lost world of meals on trays, milk puddings, gin slings and kedgeree'' Sunday Times The Bloomsbury Group fostered a fresh, creative and vital way of living that encouraged debate and communication (''only connect''), as often as not across the dining table. Gathered at these tables were many of the great figures in art, literature and economics in the early twentieth century: E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, J. M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf, among many others. Here the Bloomsbury story is told in seven broadly chronological chapters, beginning in the 1890s and finishing in the very recent past. Each chapter comprises a series of narratives, many of which are enhanced with an appropriate recipe, along with sketches, paintings, photographs, letters and handwritten notes, and featuring original quotations throughout. Part cookbook, part social and cultural history, this book will appeal to lovers of food and lovers of literature alike.

Autorentext
Jans Ondaatje Rolls is the author of Bosham Bisque and Chester Chowder. She is involved in fundraising for numerous charities and is an active supporter of Pallant House Gallery, Winston's Wish and the Charleston Trust. Anne Chisholm is a biographer and critic. Among her many books are biographies of Nancy Cunard, Lord Beaverbrook and Rumer Godden.

Inhalt
Foreword by Anne Chisholm; 'The Charleston Trust' by Virginia Nicholson; Introduction • 1. Before Bloomsbury (1890s1904) • 2. Old Bloomsbury (190414) • 3. Bloomsbury in Wartime (191419) • 4. An Appetite for Bloomsbury (1920s) • 5. Bloomsbury and Abroad (1920s1930s) • 6. Bloomsbury in Eclipse (193041) • 7. Bloomsbury's Offspring (1940s).