What is it about eating and writing? As George III didn’t say: ‘Gobble, gobble, gobble, Mr Gibbon.’
Maybe authors work too close to their kitchens to keep away? And cooking has to be the ultimate displacement activity…
In my case it’s also an element of the research I put into the Yashim stories.
Here’s a link to an interview I gave recently, on an interesting website called authors in the kitchen…
http://www.authorsinthekitchen.com/author-index/jason-goodwin/