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Jumbos On The Jumbo

Anthony Blond MALARIA by Susan Hillmore Cape, £10, pp. 134 M alaria is a jewelled horror of a book, whose cover, a putrescent peony on a shiny black ground, indicates the gloom......

In The Front Line Of Cooking

Hugh O'Neill KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL by Anthony Bourdain Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 307 nce when visiting the cavernous kitchens of the Waldorf Astoria in New York I saw a sous-chef......