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Thought For Food

Taking Stock By ELIZABETH DAVID and Edwardian eras are to blame. The instructions in some of these books were enough to put off the most intrepid cook. The 1891 edition of Mrs.......

Roundabout

Service Hatch By KATHARINE WHITEHORN BOOKS about a childhood lived before 1920 always seem to be more about the servants than the grown-ups; every pattern of living, every......