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Writing about food is my default.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.