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” Lots of cookery books, I find, are concerned with all manner of measurements and making sauces very carefully in double saucepans – and all that kind of stuff. Elizabeth David never talks about that, she just talks about the basic things that you need to make things delicious.” Read more...
Clare Morpurgo on Penguin Paperbacks
Clare Morpurgo, Children's Author
“French Country Cooking has got briefly written recipes that are encouraging but also kind of improving. It makes you feel like you need to try harder, which is a good thing, but then Elizabeth David says something like, ‘The merit of food, all different kinds of food, is less important than the spirit with which cooking is approached.’ As opposed to being determined to do it in a spirit of martyrdom, you see?” Read more...
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