Elizabeth David
Alice’s restaurant
Though Alice Waters is not a household name here, that is precisely what she is in America — the best-known…
A tale of two artists
Wherever one looked in the arts scene of the 1940s and ’50s, one was likely to encounter the tragicomic figure…
Hannah and her sisters
In Cooking People Sophia Waugh describes, with dash and wit, the personalities of five important women cookery writers: two Hannahs…







