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Thyme out katie fforde9/2/2023 Having a good heroine (even though Frances Smith had to be made younger and single) is such a good start. I remember this book with great pleasure. The only programme who’d let me in was Ready, Steady, Cook! They let me be in the audience. I wanted to write about a tv cookery programme and try as I might I couldn’t get behind the scenes at any of them. I suppose it’s because I admire these people as women and wish I was more like them! I think she was the basis for my ‘resourceful heroines’ I am so fond of writing. I went to stay with her for a night and had a terrific time. She was the one who convinced a chef (wish I could tell you which one) that they were a great garnish. She listened, she provided! It was she who brought us the pea shoot which we all eat every time. Thyme Out Thyme Out ebook By Katie Fforde Read a Sample Format ebook ISBN 9780099280248 Author Katie Fforde Publisher Random House Release 14 December 2010 Subjects Fiction Literature Romance Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. She was incredibly resourceful and among other things, sold some baby leeks, which were due to be planted, to a passing chef who told her that they were the perfect size for leeks. There’d been a ‘Black Day of the Week’ - can’t remember which one it was – but the stock market had collapsed and Frances decided that she had to use the property they lived in, which had a very large garden, to restore the family fortune. Frances Smith grew tiny vegetables for the restaurant market. It is a long time ago now but I loved these tiny glimpses of other women’s lives. It was a series of very short films called ‘A Woman Called Smith’ and it was about – yes – woman called Smith. Unlike the novels, the TV films are shot in the Northeastern United States.I was inspired by a television programme for this one. It was romantic without being gaggy and it contains no.
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