Hints and tips:
...Taken from Marguerite Patten’s ABC of Simple Cooking, 1965 1970s Nut roast Dining dichotomies ruled the 1970s....
...I don’t cook, shan’t cook, won’t cook. I hate cooking.” I wonder what it means to share a home with your ex-husband. Do they have breakfast together? “No. I have my rooms....
...Villa Adriana, Largo Marguerite Yourcenar 1, 00010 Tivoli (+3907-7453 0203; villaadriana.beniculturali.it) If I weren’t doing what I do now, I would be a cook....
...Later, she would work variously as a cable-car attendant, a cook and a brothel-keeper before establishing herself in the performing arts in the 1950 and 1960s....
...Not, indeed, that the closing Marguerite and Armand is much improvement on artistic terms....
...One hiker pointed us up through meadows of marguerites to the one in which he had spent two nights: a water pump outside the door and a stove ready to light inside....
...For details on Marguerite Patten’s cookbooks go to www.grubstreet.co.uk...
...During the second world war, the Ministry of Food, and innovative cooks such as Marguerite Patten, taught British housewives to make thrifty meals using substitutes for rationed meat, fat and sugar....
...The true cooks use instinct and intuition – though that makes it very hard to reconstruct what they knew....
...Mariko prepares mostly Italian dishes at home and I have to say it’s lucky she can cook. Sometimes I’m concentrating on my work so much I would forget to eat....
...Marlborough is also bordered by sea to the north, where the Cook Strait flows into the fiords of the Marlborough Sounds....
...As I lived above, it was simple when they popped in to come upstairs for lunch – my wife was an excellent cook....
...What if his collaborators were Marguerite Duras and the director Georges Judex Franju?...
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