10 NOVEMBER 1990, page 34

Autumn Wine And Food

The writers are off Christopher Driver AS FOOD is perishable, so are its com- mentators. There is a gaseous perishability about most present writing in English on food, cooking......

Good Vintages

Embarras de richesses Harry Eyres T here is an early Arthur Miller play called The Man Who Had All The Luck, which is a kind of reversal of the Book of Job. A young man, David......