could have been called anything
else. At the time, the decision had
really been in the balance. As for
the Introduction, I produced
something pretty perfunctory
which Mr Lehmann was tolerant
enough to accept. Likewise, my
friend Veronica Nicholson, who had
talked, not to say nagged, me into
turning my notebook of recipes
into some semblance of a book,
accepted the dedication which I
proposed to put in it.
Nowadays, all – or at any rate,
nearly all – authors have the
assistance of publishers’ editors
whose task it is to check details of