"When the last apple, the kitchen table, and the bread-knife have come together, it is felt to be a victory for the human spirit over matter. The milk-jug and the ginger-jar are transformed. These common objects are invested with the majesty of mountains and the melody of music."
Virginia Woolf
On Mother's Day Hannah, Jordan, Stella and Djuna gave me a common object---a book---but what a very special book...The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Receipes for Life, Love and Art by Jans Ondaatje Rolls. I am enchanted and transported by what I'm finding between the covers of this book. As readers, we are invited to gather at various Bloomsbury tables---simple but talk-fascinating breakfasts at Monk's House, leisurely lunches at Charleston Farmhouse, candlelit dinners at Gordon Square, and alfresco suppers at La Bergere in the south of France. This wonderful book is filled with over 300 recipes, quotations, letters, paintings, photographs and personal reminiscences of various Bloomsbury artists and writers. I'm of a mind to spend the next year inspired...reading through these pages and trying all the recipes. A heartfelt thanks to my family for discovering this gem and knowing me so well!
Nothing could have been more perfect... we love you!
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