The historic Stationers’ Company is kick starting its 2025events calendar with a bang, announcing a stellar line up of events for thepublications and communications industries.

Top amongst them is ‘Cooking the Books’, a panel eventbeing hosted on 18th March 2025 chaired by award winning food writer, cook andTV presenter Angela Clutton.  Thecookbook has long occupied an important cultural position in British society.As an early printed book, it was a prized heirloom treasured acrossgenerations, and in more recent times it has appeared in diverse forms toaccommodate a range of eating preferences and cultural interests. The contentsof a recipe book have been moulded to significant historical events, includingas frugal cookbooks in wartime, and compiled to celebrate important events inthe cultural calendar. Cookbook writers have recorded social change, mostnotably during the 19th Century, and some cookbook writers have, throughextensive media exposure, become modern day celebrities.

Increasingly, however, with the turn to the online world,we question whether this traditional collection of recipes is in danger ofbeing replaced by easily available single recipe internet searches. But withsales of cookbooks continuing to rise, why do cookbooks remain such apublishing boom and does it even matter if we don’t even cook from themanymore?

Joining Angela Clutton on the panel to discuss this andmore will be Diane Purkiss, Professor of English at the University of Oxford,and a fellow of Keble College; internationally renowned publisher, StephanieJackson, Publishing Director at DK and writer, editor, publisher and foodhistorian, Mark Riddaway.

Tickets for the event will include drinks and canapes,themed to the evening. 

For tickets visit  https://www.stationers.org/events/detail/6281

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