11 SEPTEMBER 1993, Page 26

Cook's corner

Sir: Robert Davies is no Wodehouse scholar (Letters, 4 September). Nicholas Coleridge was perfectly correct: Aunt Dahlia did indeed have her chef Anatole head-hunted. Sir Watkyn Basset offered Uncle Tom an important silver cow cream- er in exchange for Anatole.

Bertie Wooster, when promised the din- ner of his choice, to include Nonats de la Meditetrande au Fenouil was even prepared to go to prison in order to retain Anatole in Aunt Dahlia's employ.

John Noble

Ardkinglas, Cairndow, Argyll