Three cheers to Persephone Books for publishing this witty sharp writer nostalgic but unsentimental humorous but precise erudite & always elegant."
- " Country Living". "" Kitchen Essays" is a rare thing a cookbook that is as fun to read as its food is to eat."
- " Sunday Herald" (Glasgow). The author of " Kitchen Essays" (1922) was sister-in-law to the great Gertrude Jekyll whose biographer wrote that if she was an artist-gardener then Agnes was an artist-housekeeper. Agnes was a famous hostess (the guests at her first dinner party included Browning Ruskin & Burne-Jones) & her home Munstead House was the apogee of opulent comfort & order without grandeur smelling of pot-pourri furniture polish & wood smoke. During 1921-2 Lady Jekyll wrote unsigned essays for " The Times" with titles such as " Tray Food" & " Sunday Supper". " The Observer Food Magazine" commended
- lovely Persephone Books for reprinting " Kitchen Essays" " India Knight in The Shops" called it beautifully written sparkling witty & knowing an absolute delight to read while the "BBC Food Magazine" praised this exquisitely reprinted period piece."