Culture, politics and pleasure in the single woman's kitchen

Join us in conversation with Eli Davies, a writer and researcher whose writing on culture, politics and literature has been published widely, including in the Guardian, Vittles, Tribune and the Tangerine.

In her latest novel, The Spinster Cookbook, Eli looks at what happens when food is uncoupled from domestic duty and romantic relationships and what it means to cook (or not) for yourself and by yourself. How does this shape your mealtimes, the way you shop for food, the kitchen equipment you use, and your relationship to cleaning up and looking after yourself?

With warmth, humour and insight, The Spinster Cookbook explores shopping and leftovers, solo meals and dinner parties for one, joy and grief and the politics of living on your own. This is a book about making a home in the face of housing precarity, loneliness, heartbreak and social norms, and finding independence, pleasure and self-expression through cooking. It's a cookbook of sorts, and a manifesto…