Sweet memories

This week, in a failure of housekeeping I create a chocolate and walnut cookie and accidentally gluten-free, plus a stolen life-changing cookbook and a very autumnal market haul.

Every so often, you see a feature in a newspaper or magazine or online where famous people list books that changed their lives. It’s usually filled with very important literary offerings which you feel they may or may not have read, rather in the manner of Desert Island Discs guests who list the eight pieces of music they think make them sound interesti…