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19/08/2026

19/08/2026

‘A Jane Grigson quotation sits on my desk. It’s written on a scrappy Post-it note; the glue on the back has picked up dust and a stray piece of cotton. It wasn’t meant to become a permanent feature, rather a scribble to remind myself to write the line somewhere more lasting, but I can’t quite bring myself to throw it away. It reads:

“Anyone who likes to eat, can soon learn to cook well.”

It embodies Jane Grigson’s approach to food, pulling the rug from under those who shroud cooking in mystery or snobbery. For someone like me, who came to cooking relatively late in life, it is a mantra to live by. Grigson was a cook who, above all, loved to eat. Eating well is both the starting point and the ultimate end of all her cookery writing – as it surely should be for all cooking.’

this wonderful piece by Olivia Potts on Jane Grigson, which was featured in Slighlty Foxed Issue 62. 🍽️

https://foxedquarterly.com/jane-grigson-fruit-book-olivia-potts-literary-review/

19/08/2026

‘Spy novels had existed before Ambler, but few had described the treachery and double-dealing inherent in the trade in a Europe that was about to detonate.’ – Ian Thompson on the spy novels of Eric Ambler, ‘unquestionably our best thriller writer’, according to Graham Greene, in Slightly Foxed Issue 78.

https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-78-published-1-jun-2023/

15/08/2026

15/08/2026

14/08/2026

‘Once you have tasted the joy of writing you can never give it up. ...

02/06/2026