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Kitchen Front de Jennifer Ryan

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Date de parution : 01.1900
Format : Relié
Nombre de pages : 416
Résumé : From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes an unforgettable novel of a BBC-sponsored wartime cookery competition and the four women who enter for a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses: The Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is holding a cooking contest-and the grand prize is a job as the program's first-ever female co-host. For four very different women, winning the contest would present a crucial chance to change their lives. For a young widow, it's a chance to pay off her husband's debts and keep a roof over her children's heads. For a kitchen maid, it's a chance to leave servitude and find freedom. For a lady of the manor, it's a chance to escape her wealthy husband's increasingly hostile behavior. And for a trained chef, it's a chance to challenge the men at the top of her profession. These four women are giving the competition their all-even if that sometimes means bending the rules. But with so much at stake, will the contest that aims to bring the community together only serve to break it apart? Leseprobe Round One STARTER Wartime food rations for one adult for one week 4 ounces bacon or ham (around 4 rashers of bacon) Meat to the value of 1 shilling and tuppence (2 pounds mincemeat or 1 pound steaks or joint) 2 ounces cheese (a 2-inch cube) 4 ounces margarine (8 tablespoons) 2 ounces butter (4 tablespoons) 3 pints of milk 8 ounces sugar (1 cup) 2 ounces jam (4 tablespoons) 2 ounces loose leaf tea (makes around 15 to 20 cups) 1 fresh egg (plus 1 packet dried egg powder, making 12 eggs, every month) 3 ounces sweets or candy Sausages, fish, vegetables, flour, and bread are not rationed but often hard to get. Canned food, like sardines, treacle, and Spam, are on the new Points Plan, and can only be bought using your extra monthly 24 points. Source: A compilation of Ministry of Food printed materials Mrs. Audrey Landon Willow Lodge, Fenley Village, England June 1942 A glorious spring morning poured its golden splendor through the tall kitchen window as a whirlwind of boys raced in, shooting at each other in a ramshackle reconstruction of Dunkirk. “Get out of here!” Audrey whooshed them out with a dishcloth. The aroma of bubbling berries—raspberries, strawberries, red currants—filled the big old kitchen as a slim woman of forty added a touch of cinnamon, a touch of nutmeg. With a man’s sweater tucked into a man’s trousers, she looked has...
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