Darina Allen: New cookbooks in a time of Covid-19

There are some people who can rattle off a book in a few weeks. For most, it takes months, often years to write a cookbook and in some cases the end result is the culmination of a lifetime’s experimentation.

There’s a delicious ‘phew’ moment when you send the manuscript in to your publisher and then there is the anticipation of the publishing date, the subsequent launch, media coverage and book signings, but what if the important launch date coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic?