3 DECEMBER 2005, page 36

Cookery Books For Christmas And For Life

Elfreda Pownall A good cookery book is for life, not just for Christmas. Fifty years ago many people had just one cookery book, and in Italy it would have been The Silver Spoon......

Cocking A Snook At Manhattan

Ian Thomson S UMMER C ROSSING by Truman Capote Allen Lane/ Penguin, £12, pp. 142, ISBN 0713999292 ✆ £9.60 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 B orn in New Orleans in 1924, Truman......