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A Virtually Real Past

Charles Saumarez Smith 18 FOLGATE STREET: THE TALE OF A HOUSE IN SPITALFIELDS by Dennis Severs Chatto,120, pp. 286, ISBN 0701172797 I only once went to Dennis Severs's house......

Wide-ranging Table Talk

Digby Anderson FOOD: A HISTORY by Felipe Fern6ndez-Armesto Macmillan, .C20. pp. 288, ISBN 0333901746 For chow mein with pigeon blood I go to Johnny Cann's Cathay House in San......