PHILIPPA BREWSTER

She is a literary Agent who said: “Jeanette Winterson is a fantastically interesting, generous person. The portrait painted by sections of the media is ludicrous if one knows her… She has a few good friends who’ve stuck it out over a long period of time. I feel very close to her”.

MRS BEETON                                                                                                                She was a Victorian writer who wrote books of recipes in which there is the traditional method to make orange marmalade: thinly slicing the oranges and soaking them in water for three days before boiling until soft. They are then mixed with sugar and cooked to set.

NELL GWYNNE

She was a woman selling oranges and an 'actress of the London scene of the seventeenth century. She had allowed women to the stage she managed to win the heart of Charles II Stuart, King of England, returned home after a long exile afterthe revolution of 1646 which had cost the lives of his father Charles I.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JAM AND MARMALADE

Jam: a thick sticky substance made of fruit.

Marmalade: a type of jam made from oranges, lemons or grapefruit.

TRADUZIONE

“When thick rinds are used the top must be thoroughly skinned, or a scum will form marring the final appearance” : quando vengono usate grosse scorze, devono essere accuratamente sbucciate sopra, o una schiuma si formerà rovinando l’aspetto finale.

CONTENTS

As far as the content, it is organized in Introduction, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges and Ruth.

Genesis (that describes the so-called "biblical prehistory" - Creation, Fall, Flood-, and in the remaining history of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph), Exodus ( that describes the Jews in Egypt, their enslavement and the miraculous deliverance by Moses, while in the remaining describes the Jews in the Sinai desert), Leviticus (that contains only the religious and social laws that are used by the priests and Levites,  which Moses gave to the Hebrews during their stay in the Sinai desert), Numbers (that describes the history of the Jews during their sojourn in the desert of Sinai) and Deuteronomy (that describes the history of the Jews during their sojourn in the desert of Sinai, and contains many religious and social laws) belong to Torah; Joshua (that describes the history of the conquest of Canaan (Palestine) by the twelve tribes led by Joshua, Moses' successor) and Judges (that describes the history of the twelve tribes in Canaan and the Judges, occasional and charismatic military leaders) belong to Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and Christian; and Ruth (that describes the story, set in Judea in the time of the Judges, of Ruth, a model of piety and grandmother of the future King David) belong to Hebrew Bible.