From The Times: July 22, 1923
Good reading about food, good talk about food, these are the politest features of the art of polite eating. And so I am wholly in accord with M Marcel Boulestin, the author of “Simple French Cooking for English Homes” (Heinemann), when he tells us not to be afraid to talk about food.
“Food which is worth eating,” he says, is worth discussing. M Boulestin has a word of Christian charity for cooks. “A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for the artistic temperament.”
Remember the artistic temperament if you find her (an accident that sometimes happens in the best families) with her head in the fender, clasping an
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