A cookbook taught me everything I know about home - and sobriety | Joseph Earp

The author of Nigel Slater’s Notes from the Larder , whose name rang a bell, wrote about food.

After years of trying to find sobriety, it seemed likesobriety found me.

I started to cook almost every meal, a profound change to a lifetime of takeaway.

Now I have one which was tied to neither self-destruction nor my career: I like to cook.

It was mostly done by the time I heard Rosie ’s key in the door, the smells of cheese, salt and herbs wafting through the kitchen. And when I heard it, I thought, with a thrill: oh, she’s home. And I remembered again, properly, that I was too..