Diana Henry: Around the Table

Name: Diana Henry: Around the Table
Start: 2025-10-03T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-03T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Christ Church Morningside

Schedule

Fri Oct 03 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Christ Church Morningside | Edinburgh, SC

Tickets £5 - £22
This is a live, in-person event.
Location: Christ Church Morningside, 6a Morningside Rd, EH10 4DD.

We're thrilled to welcome legendary food writer Diana Henry to Edinburgh, as she joins Jessica Elliott Dennison to discuss her brand new book, Around the Table: 52 Essays on Food & Life.
Around the Table is a selection of some of bestselling writer Diana's very best essays on food, handpicked from over two decades of her much loved cookbooks.

About the book:
For Diana Henry's many fans, her evocative writing about places, people and food brings just as much pleasure as her delicious recipes. Around the Table is a selection of some of Diana's very best essays, handpicked from over two decades of her beloved cookbooks.
From the bustling Turkish groceries of the Edgware Road to the kitchen table of a cottage in rural France, a trattoria tucked away in the suburbs of Rome to the chilly Vermont countryside famed for its maple syrup, Diana Henry has followed her tastebuds around the world.
In this collection, Diana's writing brings ingredients to life on the page. Tuck into salty and sweet, buttery and inky purple and black olives. Blood-red threads of saffron that turn whole platters of food into gold, bleeding yolk-yellow streaks over creamy chicken and milky white yogurt. Mouth-puckeringly citrusy, easy to peel and almost seedless Valencia oranges. The simple pleasure of a warming slice of toast.
This vivid and nourishing collection of essays on the joys of good food is an utter delight for the senses.

About the author:
Diana Henry is one of the UK's best-loved food writers with sales of more than one million copies worldwide. She has regular columns in the Sunday Telegraph and Waitrose Weekend, her work has appeared in BBC Good Food, House & Garden, delicious. and beyond, and her broadcast appearances include BBC Radio 4. Diana has won numerous awards for her journalism and books, including Cookery Journalist of the Year and Cookbook of the Year from the Guild of Food Writers; Cookery Writer of the Year and Cookery Book of the Year at the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards; Food Book of the Year at the André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards; and a James Beard award.

About our chair:
Jess Elliott Dennison is a food writer and the founder of Elliott’s. Jess’s experience has covered all aspects of food, including as a food stylist in Sydney and London where she cooked for TV sets, commercials, magazines and cookbooks. She was part of Jamie Oliver’s team; developing food products and kitchenware, advertising campaigns and global retail partnerships. For 5 years, Jess ran Elliott’s Cafe which was listed on Conde Nast’s Best Edinburgh Restaurant List. She has written 4 cookbooks and lives in the Scottish Borders countryside with her husband, son and daughter.