husband and four children. Her novels, The Joyce Girl and Frieda, were published to great acclaim.
Abbs's newest novel is Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship. (The UK title is The Language of Food.)
Her first foray into memoir and her first solo-authored non-fiction book is Windswept: Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women.
At the Guardian she tagged ten favorite cooks and chefs in fiction. One title on the list:
Monsieur Escoffier in White Truffles in Winter by NM KelbyRead about the other entries on the list.
The legendary French chef, Auguste Escoffier, is reimagined in his last year, as he returns to his wife, Delphine. She asks him to make her a dish, just as he did for the other love of his life, actor Sarah Bernhardt (a creamy strawberry dessert he named Fraises Sarah Bernhardt and a chocolate-dipped macaroon still known as a Sarah Bernhardt). We follow Escoffier as he ponders and then prepares a final menu for his wife: scrambled eggs served in their shells with wild caviar; a casserole of pigeon and peas; and wild strawberries served with brie that has been “drizzled with candied lavender and honey”.
--Marshal Zeringue
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