Misplaced Passion

Authors

  • Sally Fincher University of Kent Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28602

Keywords:

Picnics for Motorists, Hilda Leyel, 1936, adaptation, authenticity, review article

Abstract

This review essay compares a book originally published in 1936 by Hilda Leyel, Picnics for Motorists, with a 2011 revised and modernized edition titled The Perfect Picnic. The 2011 reissue is deemed anachronistic and inauthentic. 

Author Biography

  • Sally Fincher, University of Kent

    Sally Fincher is an academic at the University of Kent and writes regularly about food, cooking and eating for The Goods Shed, Canterbury’s Farmers Market and Food Hall.

References

Polenta Cake References

Lawson, Nigella (2011), ‘Lemon Polenta Cake’, from http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/LEMON-POLENTA-CAKE-5308.

Slater, Nigel (2007), ‘Lemon-scented Sunshine’, The Observer, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/jan/21/foodanddrink.recipes.

Tamimi, S. & Ottolenghi, Y. (2008), Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, Ebury Press.

Picnic References

Austen, Jane (1816), Emma.

Grahame, Kenneth (1908), The Wind in the Willows, Methuen.

Lawrence, D. H. (1920), Women in Love, Thomas Seltzer.

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Published

2012-08-01

Issue

PPC 96 (2012)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Fincher, Sally. 2012. “Misplaced Passion”. Petits Propos Culinaires, August, 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28602.