The Food Programme - Cookbooks of 2015
Sheila Dillon and guests reflect on a year of cookery and food books.
Sheila is joined in the studio by Bee Wilson, historian and food writer who's about to publish First Bite: How We Learn to Eat, journalist and food writer Alex Renton, and Features Editor at trade magazine The Bookseller, Tom Tivnan.
Tim Hayward meets chef Magnus Nilsson - who has just completed a nearly 800-page work called The Nordic Cook Book, the result of an almost Herculean effort to tell the food stories of a vast region.
Sharing some of their standout books of the year are Xanthe Clay, Joanna Blythman, Gillian Carter and Diana Henry.
Presenter: Sheila Dillon
Producer: Rich Ward.
Published on Tuesday, 1st December 2015.
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