What a wonderful and heart-warming memoir Grace Dent has produced as she traces her development from her working class childhood in Cumbria to her life in London as journalist, food critic and TV star!
Life in Dent’s childhood was wonderfully northern and heart-warming and made me feel exceptionally nostalgic. It was a 70z childhood, full of food, albeit rather bland food, and a bar of fruit and nut as a treat!
It’s a beautifully written account of Dent’s journey to her the dizzy heights of fame, whilst at the same time never losing her grip of reality and the roots she came from.
It’s hilarious - like, laugh out loud funny! But, also, rather poignant and sad dealing with some harder hitting themes like her father’s dementia which is nothing short or tragic!
All in all, a culinary delight for the senses, highly satisfying with a perfect sense of being sated at the end.
Life in Dent’s childhood was wonderfully northern and heart-warming and made me feel exceptionally nostalgic. It was a 70z childhood, full of food, albeit rather bland food, and a bar of fruit and nut as a treat!
It’s a beautifully written account of Dent’s journey to her the dizzy heights of fame, whilst at the same time never losing her grip of reality and the roots she came from.
It’s hilarious - like, laugh out loud funny! But, also, rather poignant and sad dealing with some harder hitting themes like her father’s dementia which is nothing short or tragic!
All in all, a culinary delight for the senses, highly satisfying with a perfect sense of being sated at the end.