It’s North London once again this week for a very special visit with the legendary food writer Diana Henry! Diana is the Sunday Telegraph’s award winning food writer and author of eight books about food, culture, travelling, recipes and more food! We talked to her about her 4000 strong cookbook collection, meals in books, bleak cottage reading and favourite menus.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan – The Sisterhood

Dale Shaw – Painfully British Haikus

Diana Henry – From the Oven to the Table

Diana Henry – How to Eat a Peach

Claudia Roden – Book of Middle Eastern Food

Ursula Sedgwick – My Fun To Cook Book

Prue Leith – Entertaining With Style

Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie

Alice Waters – Chez Panisse Cookbook

Jane Grigson – Fruit Book

Molly O’Neill – Well Seasoned Appetite

Mary Berry – Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook

Julia Child – Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Diana Henry – Crazy Water Pickled Lemons

David Sedaris – Santaland Diaries

Sybil Bedford – Jigsaw

Noel Streatfeild – Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild – Bell Family

Clarissa Hyman – Tomato

Samin Nosrat (Ed) – Best American Food Writing 2019

Alison Roman – Nothing Fancy

Hans Christian Anderson – Complete Fairy tales

S Beltyukov – Leo Tolstoy’s Family Recipe Book

Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina

Catherine Cheremeteff Jones – Year of Russian Feasts

Seamus Heaney – North

AD Miller – Snowdrops

Hanya Yanagihara – A Little Life

Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road

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