Jane Dorner
Författare till Fashion: The changing shape of fashion through the years
Om författaren
Serier
Verk av Jane Dorner
The Stuff of Life 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1944
- Kön
- female
- Bostadsorter
- London, England, UK
- Utbildning
- Bristol University
Courtauld Institue of Art - Yrken
- editor
author
glass maker - Organisationer
- Society of Authors
Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society
Glass Circle
Medlemmar
Recensioner
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Associerade författare
Statistik
- Verk
- 17
- Medlemmar
- 136
- Popularitet
- #149,926
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 4
- ISBN
- 22
- Språk
- 1
- Favoritmärkt
- 1
So much artistic proficiency is found in these autobiographical prefaces to the recipes, in so many different fields. Sometimes different talents are combined for production, as when Jane “got married ... wearing a white mini dress that I made myself as well as making both our wedding rings, and cooking the wedding breakfast”; at parties for which she provided dishes that fitted the theme (a lute-shaped pie, a golden-section tempettio de formaggio, a tall croquembouche) and were listed on witty, artistically drawn menus; marmalade poured into her own blown glass jars.
The layout of the book itself demonstrates artistic accomplishment, a triumph of design, with beautiful, witty, intricate little watercolours dispersed throughout; and even mathematical accomplishment too, as the whole design of the book, published to celebrate Jane’s 70th year, is a numerical game – “The total number of illustrations is divisible by seven and by the years of our marriage and matches the pagination in a mathematically pleasing way ... The distribution of competitors plays a similar numerical game.” And the writing of the book, of course, is brilliant, witty, perceptive, and at times deeply emotional.
As it is presented chiefly as a cookery book, the index is deliberately restricted to recipe ingredients. But oh, one might so well wish to find again references to aesthetics, architecture, Art School, Art Workers Guild, babies, Bristol University, camping, cancer, car engine cooking (yes! for hot food for picnics!), cat, children, chinaware, collections, computers, dishwasher / salmon in, feminism, freelancing, grammar checker, house clearing, Jews, opera, publishers, Rye, sports, violin playing, wine glasses!
Note, this rapturous review makes no mention of the recipes themselves. All this is simply supplementary, a wonderful side dish to a master chef’s masterpiece.… (mer)