“At its best the Apricot has a certain Eastern lusciousness, a touch of the exotic which comes strangely into our homely country. In some Persian palace whose quiet garden hears only the tinkle of a fountain it would seem to find its right setting, fitly waiting on a...
“A good supper is a rare thing today. Gastronomy is like poetry: it has fallen into a complete decadence… The causes of this decadence are well known: thoughtlessness, fatuity, overweening ambition are only small and ordinary sins; the most complete...
“I did it without reading the script, because I said, ‘Who’s in it?’ and they gave me this great big star list: Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Richard Widmark, Jose Ferrer,” Caine said. “I told them ‘I’ll do it.’ One day we were all having a conversation with live...
Have you ever stood in your butchers shop or alternatively the butcher’s counter at your local supermarket (where staff don straw boaters and striped aprons in order to convince you that they, and they alone, really did make the sausages that morning), and been...
Some unusual things turn up when you’re looking for something elsewhere. Advancing shades of Don Quixote I fear. I was searching amongst the horizontal metres of cookbooks – a quantity of invaluable publications that my family frequently find time to pillory...
