me next?’ On that occasion I was
ready for him. I had a small
collection of French recipes which
hadn’t been suitable for the
Mediterranean book. These, when
put together, became French
Country Cooking, again with a
jacket design and illustrations by
John Minton, and published in
- I had made friends with both
John Lehmann and John Minton,
and it was a blow to me when in
1953, whilst I was half way
through the writing of a third book,
Italian Food, the first John wrote to
tell me that his publishing business
was to be wound up. Although he