Patience on a monument
As a food writer Patience Gray (1917–2005) merits shelf-space with M.F.K. Fisher, Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson. Fleeing from the…
Rhinoceros pie, anyone?
Forgotten? Though I can rarely attend their dinners (in Birmingham), I am a proud member of the Buckland Club (motto:…
Hoarder disorder
The enormous desk on which I am writing this is swamped by four precarious piles of books, one topped by…
