EXCLUSIVE: Annabel Abbs’ period cookery novel Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen is set for a television adaptation after CBS Studios and Stampede Ventures optioned the rights.The two companies struck a deal for the screen rights to the book, which is being published by William Morrow and Simon & Schuster UK.
It is the latest project to emerge out of Stampede Ventures’ first-look deal that the companies signed last September.The book tells the story of an English poet, Eliza Acton, who dreams of seeing her words in print.
However, when she takes her new manuscript to a publisher, she’s told that “poetry is not the business of a lady.” Instead, they want her to write a cookery book.England in 1837 is awash with exciting new ingredients, from
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