The cookbook that propelled my love of food writing

A general ode to old books and a recipe for tomato bisque

I fell in love with the food writing of another era — well, well before blogs, let alone social media — because my first love was old books and therefore I loved nothing more than poking around second hand bookshops. I loved the smell of old books, the brittleness of their brown pages (this was even years before I decided to get a diploma in book restor…