More Cook-gardeners
A not too serious suggestion was made last year on this page that country dwellers should encourage the multiplication of cook-gardeners or gardening cooks. After all, the final cause of the vegetable is its appearance on the table ; and a large number of gardeners (especially those who like to take prizes at shows) quite forget this. Since that suggestion was made a little book has been published which deals wholly with the subject. It is called Cloches and Casseroles, has a highly facetious cover, is written by " a humble member of the Wine and Food Society " (which concerns itself with production as well as consumption), and is published by the County Press, Newport, I. of W. The lightness of touch suggested on the cover is perhaps overdone, and may give a wrong impression, for " this slender volume " contains a good many useful hints on the complementary crafts of the gardener and the cook. It is a pity that the rarer vegetables (of which Mr. Bunyard makes a speciality) are very sketchily touched upon, but the hints about herbs and the less common salads are valuable. It is, at any rate, the sort of book that ought to be written, especially in this age when all the world is swinging to a more vegetarian or fruitarian habit of diet.
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