2 DECEMBER 2000, page 68

Radio

Too much talk Michael Vestey S aid the phone-in host to a caller, 'Hey, you come down here, boy . . . you lily-liv- ered, yella-bellied, egg-suckin' dog, bad- weather, pickled......

Food For Thought

Healing powers Simon Courtauld remember once being offered pickled garlic at a party in Tehran. It would give me protection, my host said, from the cholera epidemic that was......