23 AUGUST 2003, page 55

Sangfroid And Scotch Eggs Ligivkatiall Henderson New York...

from the paper in Cumberland had called to find out how New Yorkers had coped with the blackout. But Pete Myers was interested in more pressing matters, like Carlisle - United's......

Q. When Eating, My 15-year-old Daughter Knocks Her Teeth...

her fork or spoon. She is very amenable to being corrected, but we are about to join a large house-party where we will all be eating en famille, and! can't nag her in public. I......

A. The Overhandfork Po.sifion To Which You Refer Is Not

even practised in the 'flyover states' of the American interior (where food is vertically impaled with the left hand and sawn up with the right into Kennomeat-style chunks).......

Q. What Puddings Are Currently Fashionable?

T.S., Polzeath, Cornwall A. One easy-to-assemble pudding which has been popular in house-parties this summer is quality vanilla ice-cream thawed sufficiently to permit the......