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The Stationers’ Company is kick starting its 2025 events calendar with a bang, announcing a stellar line up of events for the publications and communications industries.
Top amongst them is ‘Cooking the Books’, a panel event being hosted on 18 March 2025 chaired by award winning food writer, cook and TV presenter Angela Clutton.
The cookbook has long occupied an important cultural position in British society. As an early printed book, it was a prized heirloom treasured across generations, and in more recent times it has appeared in diverse forms to accommodate a range of eating preferences and cultural interests. The contents of a recipe book have been moulded to significant historical events, including as frugal cookbooks in wartime, and compiled to celebrate important events in the cultural calendar. Cookbook writers have recorded social change, most notably during the 19th century, and some cookbook writers have, through extensive media exposure, become modern day celebrities.
Increasingly, however, with the turn to the online world, we question whether this traditional collection of recipes is in danger of being replaced by easily available single recipe internet searches. But with sales of cookbooks continuing to rise, why do cookbooks remain such a publishing boom and does it even matter if we don’t even cook from them anymore?
Joining Angela Clutton on the panel to discuss this and more will be Diane Purkiss, professor of English at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of Keble College; internationally renowned publisher, Stephanie Jackson, publishing director at DK and writer, editor, publisher and food historian, Mark Riddaway.
Tickets for the event will include drinks and canapes, themed to the evening.
For tickets visit Cooking the Books: the past, present and future of cookbooks
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