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Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food, ranging from rural Berkshire to wartime London, via Belle Epoque Paris and prohibition-era New York. While Georgina Landemare saw herself as ordinary, her accomplishments, and the life she lived, were anything but. She started her career as a nursemaid and ended it cooking for one of the best-known figures in British history, Winston Churchill, a man to whom food was central as a diplomatic tool in a time when the world was embroiled in a worldwide war.

Is your disorganized home driving you crazy? You almost lose your mind tidying up in a panic when guests come over? Rest assured, you’re not the only one battling this chaos—most of your friends are hurriedly stuffing papers into drawers and flinging toys into cupboards when you go over too. You probably already know that having a good organization system would help—how much calmer you’d feel when the kids are running around and the TV’s blaring if everything was neatly stowed away. But just how do you achieve that?

Grow and enjoy your own fresh veggies and herbs, even if you don't have a yard. Start a thriving container garden with this accessible beginner's guide and experience the satisfaction of seeing your grocery bill shrink. Do you want amazingly fresh veggies and herbs but are worried that you don't have enough space or the gardening experience? Even if all you have is a tiny amount of space on a balcony, patio, or front stoop, The Container Victory Garden equips you to dig into the joys of container gardening, right where you are.

This insightful memoir portrays a woman's personal journey through a year of love, loss, and healing as she deals with her husband's cancer diagnosis by turning to nature.