I cooked my way through the shock of my husband walking out on me: They'd been married for 23 years and had three kids. Then suddenly he left. Here, food writer BEE WILSON describes how she found solace in her recipes..

BEE WILSON: All this food you cook, it means nothing to me,' said my husband of 23 years, standing in my kitchen. It was a couple of weeks since he had announced that he was leaving.