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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In the year 1905 three young men two of them just down from Oxford were lying in the heather on the sunny brow of one of the Brecon Beacons. The two graduates were Harry Pirie-Gordon? whose parents lived at nearby Crickhowell and his friend Harry Luke. The third was an older man of somewhat sinister aspect called Frederick William Rolfe also known as Baron Corvo. Resting from the exertion of climbing the hill this – probably hungry – triumvirate were amusing themselves by inventing imagin- ary savouries. “On a slice of Bath Chap” declaimed the orotund Pirie- Gordon “trimmed to fit a disc of fried bread of the size of half a crown lay a mushroom baked in milk as a base for a piece of cold grouse as large as a thumbnail and a quarter of an inch thick.” “But” objected Corvo with his penchant for recondite words “the mushroom must be isomegethic? with the disc and five drops of lemon-juice should be squeezed upon the grouse just before serving.” Now it was Luke’s turn to add his twopenn’orth. “No” he said “that would be too sharp. Let us add rather half a mulberry.” Luke also claimed that while still up at Oxford he quelled an affray between members of his college Trinity and their neigh- bours Balliol by offering the antagonists hot sausages spiked with Worcestershire sauce which he happened to be cooking at the time. So it is easy to see from an early age in which direction he was go- ing both as a diplomat and as the author of a book about food. (LL)