Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook

Gray, Annie

ISBN 10: 1788160452 / ISBN 13: 9781788160452

Published by Profile Books, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788160452
• ISBN 13: 9781788160452
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard and enjoyed her life. But while Georgina Landemare saw herself as ordinary, her accomplishments were anything but. Georgina started her career as a nursemaid and ended it cooking for one of the best-known figures in British history: Winston Churchill.

To him, food was central, not only as a pleasure but as a diplomatic tool at a time when the world was embroiled in war.
With this eager eater and his skilled cook, ranging from rural Berkshire to wartime London, via Belle Epoque Paris and prohibition-era New York, Annie Gray shows how life in service - and food - changed during the huge upheavals of the twentieth century.