14 AUGUST 1959, Page 22

SIR,—It is a comment on the delicacies listed bY Leslie

Adrian that he had to trust to the dictionary rather than his own palate to identify achars. Gasp Concise French-English Dictionary says that they are 'Indian pickles.' The description of the joker-host who feeds 11,1 guests with eccentric confections recalls that hall forgotten gastronome Frank Buckland, who 113 several casualties at his table on producing a livs', specimen, in all its repulsive scaliness, of the sac' culent dish of which they had just partaken.—Your

faithfully,

W. G. DAljll