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Competition

No. 1365: Making a meal of it

Set by Jaspistos: Writers on cookery can be quite as pretentious, long-winded or falsely lyrical as writers on wine. A recipe, please, with accompanying chit-chat, for a simple dish (a boiled egg, a Welsh rarebit?) in the style of such a pseud. Entries to 'Competi- tion No. 1365' by 12 April.