The stories you've never heard behind the objects that feel like home
The stories you've never heard behind the objects that feel like home
Emma Bridgewater established her successful pottery business in 1985. She found a manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent to produce a range of mugs, jugs and teapots inspired by traditional shapes and spongeware designs. She now employs over 230 people and continues to make all her ceramics in Staffordshire, the historic home of pottery manufacture in Britain. Emma is married with four children and lives outside Oxford, where she was brought up.
In these 'stories', Emma shares her passions and with them comes a
satisfying feeling of wellbeing.
*The Good Book Guide*
Emma Bridgewater, queen of kitchenware, proves herself queen of the
memoir too. As attractive, comforting and encouraging as her
products, this book is similarly innocent of tweeness or cloying
cosiness. The crunch of good toast and the bitter sweetness of good
marmalade in fact.
*Stephen Fry*
Emma Bridgewater's captivating recipe for a happy family life:
food, passion, work, love.
*Meg Rosoff*
What a great read - a true British inspiration story - I loved
it!
*Cath Kidston*
It's the kind of beautiful, recipe-packed book you'd buy to give to
your mother-in-law and end up keeping for yourself.
*Evening Standard*
[Toast & Marmalade] is a glossy scrapbook of family recipes and
childhood memories of camping trips or picnics that shimmer in the
late afternoon sun.
*Daily Express*
Toast & Marmalade is a heartwarming, sumptuously presented
memoir-cum-commemoration of the Emma Bridgewater brand.
*You Magazine*
The word 'Toast' triggers a bat's squeak of association in the
brain, conjuring that endearing autobiography by Nigel Slater,
'artistic' clothing in the eponymous mailing catalogue and a
home-made loaf. Its appearance in the book's title is as masterly
as what follows, an account of the Arts and Crafts-style life that
created the Bridgewater Pottery empire, satisfying to read and
thickly spread with luscious photography... it is hard not to fall
for this narrator, who comes across as all of a piece: sagacious,
plain-speaking and energetic, labouring at her pottery, her family
life and the writing process, to bring them all into something not
far off perfection.
*World of Interiors*
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