11 NOVEMBER 2000, page 60

The First Great Englishman

David Nokes CHAUCER 1340-1400 A ccording to a recent ICM survey, there are sadly only 20 per cent of the pop- ulation who know that Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales. So the......

The Morality Of The Omelette

Digby Anderson D erek Cooper is a ruminator who pon- ders potato varieties, the decline of water- cress consumption, snail feasts, starved smoked eels and flavours of walnut......