Eli Davies
The Indigo Press is an independent publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, based in London. Guided by a spirit of internationalism, feminism and social justice, we publish books to make readers see the world afresh, question their behaviour and beliefs, and imagine a better future.
Eli Davies
Eli Davies is a writer and researcher whose writing on culture, politics and literature has been published widely, including in the Guardian, Vittles, Tribune and the Tangerine.
She also co-edited Under My Thumb: Songs that Hate Women and the Women Who Love them, an anthology of women’s music writing published in 2017. She lives in London. Eli is based is South London and is available for events.
The Spinster Cookbook: Culture, Politics and Pleasure in the Single Woman’s Kitchen
The kitchen has always been a complex space for women: a
place of labour and gendered expectations, as well as a site of
nourishment, care and company. But how does this change
when you’re alone, not cooking for family or friends, but simply
for yourself?
Eli Davies explores 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 for living differently.
