JAMES PEMBROKE

SPRING CHICKEN

Pursuits

Reggie St Cloud, Brenda Last’s brother in Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust, ranks highest in my gastronomic pantheon. To describe him as omnivorous would damn him with faint praise. ‘He ate in a ruthless manner, champing his food (it was his habit,...

Read latest The Oldie online.

Online newspapers at PressDisplay. Newspapers from United Kingdom
Newspapers in English