Dinner meets drama at sister Newcastle restaurants Blackfriars and Dobson & Parnell, as they host dinner and a play based on the culinary rivalry between 18th Century cookery writers Hannah Glasse and Ann Cook, both from Hexham. Morpeth-based performing arts company November Club stages Foods and Feuds: Two Cooks of Hexham, in March and April. Glasse’s reputation lives on, largely through her first book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, which was published in 1747 and became the best-selling recipe book of the 18th Century. The book also influenced 20th Century writers including Elizabeth David, Fanny Craddock and Clarissa Dickson Wright.
Foods and Feuds: Two Cooks of Hexham, is at Blackfriars Cookery School on March 30 and Dobson & Parnell on April 1.
Tickets, including dinner, are at www.blackfriarsrestaurant.co.uk and www.dobsonandparnell.co.uk
