Books for Cooks
It only took a second to go back twenty years. There I was settling down with March 2016's Observer Food Monthly and a little blurb on the cover of the magazine caught my eye. It read, The Food Lover's Ultimate Book Shop (it also serves lunch) . Could it be? In that instant I knew what my ultimate food lover's bookshop would be but could it be the same one? A quick scan to page 52 confirmed that it was indeed Books for Cooks a place that to my shame I had last visited in the mid-nineties when my professional life took me occasionally from Belfast to London and more exactly, Notting Hill Gate. It was at a meeting that a colleague hearing of my interest in culinary matters suggested I visit this unique bookshop at Blenheim Crescent. I had time; I did; and immediately fell in love with the place. That was twenty years ago! In my memory its shelves were (of course) packed with cookery books but what I remember was how special the place...