Nigella, Petronius, and The Cookbooks of Death

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog I have devoured cookbooks for some time. We had several shelves of them in my parents’ house, thick, brightly colored novels with reams of delicacies just waiting to be salivated over. I refer to the cookbook as a “novel,” I suppose, because more often than not … [Read more…]