Delicious

 Delicious

Reviewed By  Grasshopper2       March 31, 2026

 

Author  Kate Legge

Distributor:      Allen and Unwin
ISBN:                 9781761472268
Publisher:         Allen and Unwin
Release Date:   31 March 2023  

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Stories of cooking, love and friendship

Delicious: What a marvellous way to share your life story. Each segment of Kate Legge’s life is remembered and retold, with the food that was shared at that time featured. She was a very active young woman; an award-winning journalist and author, Kate’s love of food and cooking began as she learned her kitchen craft with her mother. She has, over time collected many recipes, most spattered and grimy. The many people and dear friends that she has made on her life journey have contributed to the stories in this book and had their recipes acknowledged.

Kate’s mother loved hosting dinner parties and sometimes the children could help by chopping the parsley. First lesson, Chop it finely, not too coarse! As a journalist, the author met a likeminded woman; one day they escaped work and went home to bake a pie. It was a chicken pie and not a crumb was left. The women were close friends and stayed forever in touch even though their lives took different paths. When Kate contacted Mary Lou and asked permission to publish her chicken pie recipe, she was sent a photo of the pie with a love heart.

Working as a journalist in Parliament House was a huge and challenging job. Here she once again met a woman who believed food was a way of caring for people. Kate’s work, friendship and exploration of Alex’s life revealed she had left Poland as a refugee with a harrowing story to tell. The author left “The Age’ and moved to “Times on Sunday.”  The recipe at the end of this chapter is “Alexandra’s Homespun Honey Cake.

So many friendships, some lost but most in touch sporadically. The recollections here are fascinating as threads of a life story, true friendships, and cooking meld into a wonderful life story.

Biographies, Food, Non Fiction