FOOD + DRINK
FORGOTTEN DELIGHTS
TWO STRANGERS , FIVE DECADES APART . COULD FATE BE ABOUT TO BRING THEM TOGETHER ?
PHOTOS BY LUCY MOHR & GEORGIE WILLIAMS
THIS IS THE REMARKABLE STORY OF A YOUNG WOMAN FROM KENT WHO HAS A DATE WITH DESTINY WHEN SHE FINDS AN OLD 60 ’ S COOKBOOK IN A VINTAGE CABINET . LUCY MOHR DELVES INTO THE DELIGHT OF A FORGOTTEN PAST ...
31 year old Georgie Williams , from the seaside village of Sandgate , was shopping in a South London street when an old vintage cabinet in a second hand shop caught her eye . Instantly falling in love with it , she bought it on the spot and lugged her new piece of furniture home . Little did she know though , that she hadn ’ t just simply purchased a vintage cabinet ; inside it lay a leather bound recipe book dated 1968 and filled with 366 pages of handwritten recipes . One for every day of 1968 ’ s leap year .
For most people , finding something like this would be a lovely surprise and perhaps something they may mention to their friends and family but for most , it is something that would go on a bookshelf , or be put into a cabinet … never to be found again for perhaps another 50 years . But on that particular day – at that particular moment – when Georgie spotted the vintage cabinet , it ’ s hard not to believe there was an element of destiny involved . For the cookbook had found a new owner whose passion for food and story-telling made her want to bring the voice of the woman who had written it back to life .
Abound by questions about who this person was and what her life was like , Georgie made a decision , “ I challenged myself to work through the book page by page , recipe by recipe , on a quest to try and find out who the owner of the diary is and eventually , reunite them with it .” She decided upon the name , Forgotten Delights , and began an instagram account . Georgie works in advertising , so is naturally gifted
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