Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives: a collection of short stories

"We all have imaginary lives, and if we are lucky we have a dish to go with them..."

So begins the title story of Genevieve Jenner's debut short story collection, a ground-breaking anthology of magical realist food writing.

A Russian countess finds herself making borscht for her socialist Parisian neighbours; unknown office colleagues secretly exchange lunchtime delicacies and recipes via the work fridge; steak is cooked at midnight on a Friday to get around Catholic proscriptions; and a thri...