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Lunch Dates

Lunching with Boswell Alice Thomson B ruce is a man of 18-century habits. He lives alone in St James's in a garret at the Travellers' Club, eats cold grouse for breakfast, has......

Festive Food

Ages of splendour Katie Dashwood C hristmas is hardly a new invention, but what culinary skills and tastes did our more hedonistic ancestors bring to the cel- ebrations? Looking......