Cooking with the Queen
"Creams and crimes - criminals and delicious recipes by Agatha Christie"
Anne Martinetti and François Riviere
foreword by Jeffery Deaver
2007
Although he spent most of his life producing novels which regularly "killed people", among other things in the most cold and calculated that it exists and that with the poison, Agatha Christie was a woman who loved her madly life and its pleasures, especially the food, the company of friends (preferably if a table), picnics (preferably with lavish picnics) and, I believe, love.
A short, passionate woman, a woman who never gives up, none of its yellow to dinner tables and delicious tea, but despite being a great reader of his novels, I never would have suspected so great a passion for cooking and food .
This aspect of the "Queen of the yellow" I was readily revealed by this delightful book where the two curators collect "his" recipes.
quotes are in order: the dishes offered here are those of the best traditional English cuisine (though there are some exotic dishes, real souvenir travel) but also the preparations in which the Christie excelled itself and with which he loved to regale his guests.
I like to imagine, in a joke actually a bit 'grim, while serving a delicious meal at the table but, just happened in his latest novel is due to the fact, as poisoned avvelenatissima ... who knows the faces of the guests !
Often, those submitted, recipes are complicated and lengthy preparation, one on all the "cabbage English" , but have the merit to rehabilitate, at least in part, the kitchen always despised Anglo-Saxon.
In particular, I was speechless after reading the description (ecstasy) that it really makes Christie gourmet dinner to celebrate his eightieth birthday, and especially after the last course dedicated exclusively to celebrate: a pint (!) cream of Devon, her biggest passion ever.
READ: If you want to know something more of the legendary Agatha and then if you want to learn how to prepare a dinner in English.