COOKING IN A BEDSITTER

There is one powerful smell closely associated with the making of coffee in bedsitters It is the smell of burning plastic and will go away if you move the handle of the pot away from the flame Legendary journalist Katharine Whitehorn s classic handbook of quick simple meals including Swedish Sausage Casserole Lamb Tomato Quickie and Shrimp Wiggle became the essential survival manual for the busy single person living in their first rented room Whitehorn s trademark intelligent practical and fabulously funny writing shines as brightly as ever addressing the problems of cooking at ground level in a hurry with nowhere to put the salad but the washing up bowl which is in any case full of socks Delightful entertaining and utterly indispensable Praise for Katharine Whitehorn A meteor clever funny compassionate insightful beautiful RACHEL COOKE Everyone grabbed the Observer to read her column on a Sunday morning JILLY COOPER Wise witty mischievous JAY RAYNER