28 MARCH 1987, Page 27

Too hot for Prue?

Sir: Nigella Lawson got it right (Res- taurant, 3 January) and Prue Leith got it wrong (Letters, 21 March). If the kitchen is too hot for Prue Leith she should get out, i.e. stop writing books. To complain about Spectator columnists `laying into' Enter- taining with Style when it has sold 7,000 copies at £14.95 is a new sauce to me. There is no toffee on either Nigella Law- son's or Alice Thomas Ellis's perfectly formed noses but, of course, it is impossi- ble to take seriously much written or said by anyone professionally connected with British Rail catering.

Jeffrey Bernard

220 Great Portland Street, London W1