suffered from five years of wartime
food and rationing and could
barely remember what it had been
like to have unlimited butter,
cream, oranges, lemons, sugar,
jam, meat, not to mention wine
and olive oil, the cheese at the end
of a meal was an irrelevance. The
point was first to make sure you
had the wherewithal to prepare a
meal, then you could start
worrying about whether or not it
would be complete without three or
four ounces of cheese.
No sooner was Mediterranean
Food launched than John Lehmann
began to ask, ‘What can you give