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British food writer Bee Wilson's new book The Secret of Cooking also serves up secrets for stress-free living.
Alongside recipes, there's encouragement to improvise, a very useful section on learning to cook by experimenting with a bag of carrots, and repurposing an unloved wedding ring.
Bee cooked her way through divorce, rekindling her appetite for life.
She's a campaigner for food education through the charity TastEd, and writes the "Table Talk" column for The Wall Street Journal.
