3 MARCH 1984, Page 36

Competition

No. 1310: Booking the cooks

Set by Jaspistos: Cookery books, of which there is now a superflux, have become increasingly recondite and absurd. You are invited to supply the title plus a short publisher's blurb (maximum 120 words) describing one such imminent volume. Entries to 'Competition No. 1310' by 16 March.

The top winner of this and the next two competitions will get a bonus prize of a bot- tle of Californian wine — Fume Blanc 1981 (Robert Mondavi) — through the generosi- ty of Mr Neville Abraham of the Cafe des Amis du Vin, 11 Hanover Place, Covent Garden, London WC2 (379 3444).