Blogs in January 1970

The Food of Love 1st January 1970

Cyrano de Bergerac with a modern feel….

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The Wedding Officer 1st January 1970

Italy during the war, tantalising italian food, a beautiful novel, war is raging and Mussolini is in power….

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The Various Flavours of Coffee 1st January 1970

It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee – and encounters Pinker’s free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily. As romance blossoms...

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The Empress of Ice Cream 1st January 1970

FRANCE 1670. Carlo Demirco’s mastery of the extraordinary new art of creating ice creams has brought him wealth, women, and a position at the court of Louis XIV. Then Carlo is sent to London, along with Louise de Keroualle,...

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