People who write cookbooks are usually so obsessed with food that they make elaborate dinner plans over breakfast and can’t wait to try finicky new recipes – but not The Batch Lady. “No, I don’t really like cooking,” says Suzanne Mulholland with a big laugh. “My publishers always say, ‘Don’t tell people that!’”
Admittedly Mulholland, author of a slew of hit cookbooks, does enjoy cooking on a Saturday night. “When I’ve got friends over, I’m doing a theme and we’re having supper together, I love that,” she explains. “I don’t like cooking on a mundane Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday night. It’s like, take your favourite thing you love to do, say it was yoga, and then I’m going to make you do it every single night at the same time, every single night for the rest of your life – you’re probably not going to enjoy yoga!”
