Eli Davies & Rebecca May Johnson: The Spinster Cookbook
About this episode
Eli Davies discusses her book The Spinster Cookbook with Rebecca May Johnson, exploring the complexities of cooking for oneself as a woman.
The kitchen has always been a complex space for women: a place of labour and gendered expectations, as well as a site of nourishment, care and company. But how does this change when you’re alone, not cooking for family or friends, but simply for yourself? In The Spinster Cookbook (Indigo Press) Eli Davies explores what happens when food is uncoupled from domestic duty and romantic relationships and what it means to cook (or not) for yourself and by yourself. Davies was in conversation with Rebecca May Johnson, author of Small Fires and editor at Vittles magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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