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This is the third event in a new series of evenings at the Freud Museum titled Provocations, or Difficult Conversations in the Home of the Talking Cure. In-house only.
As the great M F K Fisher once wrote, food is a proxy for many other longings besides hunger. In this event Rachel Cooke, the author of Kitchen Person: Notes on Cooking and Eating, and Bee Wilson, whose latest book is The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen, explore both the emotional role food plays in our lives and the connections to be found between what we like (or don’t like) to eat and our sense of identity.
“Bee Wilson is the ultimate food scholar.” Yotam Ottolenghi
SPEAKERS
Bee Wilson is a journalist and writer, mostly about food. Her books include Consider the Fork, First Bite and The Way We Eat Now (a Fortnum & Mason food book of the year). She is also the co-founder of Taste Ed, a food education charity aimed at giving children opportunities to experience joyfully fresh fruit and vegetables. Her new book, The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen has been described as “game-changing” by Nigella Lawson.
Rachel Cooke is an award-winning journalist. She works at the Observer and writes a column in the New Statesman. Her essays are broadcast regularly on Radio 3. She is the author of Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the 1950s, Kitchen Person: Notes on Cooking and Eating, and is currently editing The Virago Book of Friendship.
Josh Cohen is a psychoanalyst in private practice and Professor of Literary Theory at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of many books and articles on psychoanalysis, literature and culture, including How to Read Freud, The Private Life, Not Working, How To Live. What To Do and Losers. A book on anger, All the Rage, will be published in Autumn 2024.
Buy the Book
Kitchen Person: Notes on Cooking and Eating – Rachel Cooke is available to purchase from the Freud Museum Shop.
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The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen – Bee Wilson is available to purchase from the Freud Museum Shop.
Worldwide shipping available. Pick up your copy now >>
TICKETS
Tickets include a welcome drink and book signing.
Freud Museum Members and Patrons receive 20% off the standard ticket price on all events, courses, conferences and On Demand programming.
The purpose of this event is to raise funds for the Freud Museum London, which receives no regular public income.
Provocations, or Difficult Conversations in the Home of the Talking Cure
A new series of evening events at the Freud Museum.
Provocations: Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC – 2 November
Provocations: Lifescapes – An Evening with Ann Wroe – 15 November
