Sherry Monahan

Published by: Roan and Weatherford
Release Date: September 2024

 

Sherry Monahan creatively weaves Victorian-era recipes with the true, and sometimes scandalous life of an English socialite named Ethel Barry. Discover how this young woman grew up in a proper English home and attended all the right schools but found salvation in a kitchen—a place she wasn’t supposed to be. She was expected to find a suitable husband in her class, get married, manage a household staff, and have children. But that’s not exactly how her life turned out because she broke Victorian protocol.

Cooking, which she never learned because her parents had staff for that, turned out to be her escape when she was “exiled” in America. She turned to food to sustain them in California as she quickly discovered that her life didn’t turn out the way she expected. Learn about Ethel’s life through over seventy-five Victorian-era recipes she either made or enjoyed. It’s served with a side of scandal, like when she went skinny-dipping and when her divorce appeared in multiple U.S. newspapers with wild accusations.