occasionally Neapolitan mozzarella
cheese, and honey from Mount
Hymettus.’ How right Elizabeth
Nicholas had been about ‘the
ignoble compromises with
expediency’ which I had not made.
The truth was that I had felt
squeamish about compromises. I
shrank from words like margarine
and vegetable lard. I declined to
use those substances in my own
cooking, so why inflict them on my
readers?
To me it was wonderful that
Mediterranean Food could now be
bought for 2s. 6d., but immensely
sad that John Lehmann, who had