Diana Henry | Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons

Fri 25 Apr 2025 | 6:30pm - 7:30pm

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Diana Henry book
Bee Wilson

A shout out to home cooks and hungry readers everywhere! Bestselling food writer Diana Henry makes her Cambridge debut with a glorious new edition of the original and much-loved best-selling book Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons which gathers together dishes that combine colourful, aromatic and perfumed ingredients – from leathery pomegranates with their insides bursting with ruby seeds to flower waters that allow you to drink in the scent of a garden – to bring pleasure to your kitchen and an intoxicating whiff of warmer climes to your table. This is a book beloved by Claudia Roden, Nigel Slater and Yotam Ottolenghi and gathers dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa. An event to whet appetites and lift hearts. 

In conversation with Bee Wilson 

Venue: Old Divinity School

Duration: 1 hour

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6.30pm | 25 April | Old Divinity School
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Author Biography

Diana Henry is one of the UK’s best-loved food writers. She has regular columns in the Sunday Telegraph and Waitrose Weekend, her work has appeared in BBC Good FoodHouse & Gardendelicious. and beyond, and her broadcast appearances include BBC Radio 4. Diana has won numerous awards for her journalism and books.

Chair Biography

Bee Wilson is a cook, food writer and journalist. Her books include Consider the Fork, First Bite and The Way We Eat Now. She writes the ‘Table Talk’ column in The Wall Street Journal. Her book Consider the Fork on the history of kitchen inventions, from fire to ice to pots and pans, was published in multiple languages including Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Estonian, Turkish and Chinese. Her prize-winning book on the psychology of eating and how children’s food habits are acquired, First Bite, was published in 2015. As well as writing about food, she writes about a range of other subjects, including film and biography, especially for The London Review of Books. Bee’s latest book is The Secret of Cooking. She lives in Cambridge in the UK.