A Book of Mediterranean Food

I am happy to say that although
Macdonald’s, at the time of writing
part of Captain Robert Maxwell’s
publishing empire, gather in their
share of my paperback royalties,
those of the hardback editions have
long since passed from their
control. Since then the books have
gone through several lives, one of
them every bit as dismaying as
their previous acquisition by
Macdonald’s. From the hands of a
publisher called Robert Hale, of
whom I shall say no more than it
seemed a singular misfortune to
have had my books acquired by his
firm, I was rescued by Messrs