A cookbook for novices that began life as a primer for Clarke's student son. Full of good things, easily achieved, that will cheer the hesitant and their comrades at the table. Omelette with... read more
Nancy L was Nancy A's niece: this book brings together their recipes from their Virginian home Mirador, also Cliveden - a mix of English, French and Southern dishes to tempt, repeatedly.
Genial mix of aesthetics, lit crit, philosophy, art and history. Rabelais, Vermeer, ancient Rome and a classical Greek text in 16 vols about a single meal. The latter would have given Proust... read more
"Ballymaloe!" - thus would Lewis Carroll have chortled in his joy had he ever had the pleasure of sitting down to a soup of the evening with Rachel Allen, scattered with beautiful za'atar cr... read more