Sarah Beattie

Food writer

When I submitted my first ever synopsis to the rather intimidating doyenne of food editors, Jill Norman, she rejected it and said she thought I'd borrowed a soup recipe from Jane Grigson. I was upset, at that point I'd not read Grigson. What an omission! Now I have and time has passed, I can be flattered that Ms Norman thought my recipe an equal to Grigson's. I finally started on her canon with this book, a compilation from her magazine features. I found it in a secondhand book shop and its direct style and enthusiasm for peoples and places is wonderfully engaging