22 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 19

The "crested and prevailing name of M. X. Marcel Boulestin

lends- weight in a preface to Dinners, Long and Short, by Mr. A. H. Adair. Yes, "it is just as easy to order a good meal as it is to order a bad one, just as simple for the cook to prepare it." Mr. Adair's menus are well planned and his advice on "polite wine-drinking" is sound. Nothing in English yet compares with Mrs. Allhusen's Book of Scents and Dishes, but this is a guide book for good housekeepers and a brilliant choice of inspirations for bon Viveurs.

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