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This thing about broilers

... giblets. Include the livers in little dumplings to be served with the soup. But the supremes? With fresh asparagus coming in now and then or canned asparagus tips as a garnish, I suggest supremes de voi.aii.i.e princesse. They are so quickly prepared that ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1962
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 850 | Page: 53 | Tags: Review 

MORE PLAY REVIEWS: GAY SWEATSHOP

... love. All his days, he had a dream of an Adonis yet remained what Cecil Beaton apparently described briskly as sloppy asparagus. Strachey's sharp observation is in its verbal expression theatrical and the presentation in this form, against a twenties ...

Published: Thursday 16 February 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 17 | Tags: review 

Grandparents galore

... Grandparents galore THERE IS NO BOOK BETTER FOR A cold winter evening than John Lodwick's The Asparagus Trench, a brilliant, adorable autobiographical beginning to a longer work the author tragically did not live to complete. This brief, gay and touching ...

Published: Wednesday 26 October 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 586 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

Wines, Gardens and Games

... plays havoc, there is no time to waste. It is a valuable guide to battle, so arranged that, finding, for instance, that the asparagus has rust spot (as surely it will have), we can discover instantly what to do. No longer need we believe those highly trained ...

Novelist on a spree

... page 148 Mariette is busily at work on a spread of ham and fresh salmon sandwiches, prawn vol-au-vents, sausage rolls, asparagus tips, cheese tarts, salad and things of that sort. After each encounter with Pop Larkin I creep away and nibble a meagre ...

Published: Wednesday 27 July 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 961 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

SHORT STORIES AND NOVELS FOR SUMMER READING: The Magic Touch of Nevil Shute; Peter de Polnay and a Far From ..

... A Child's Garden of Curses (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.). I know that tastes in humour and wit are more personal than tastes in asparagus, oysters or painting, but (probably because I can't leave well alone) I must tell you that I think this volume remarkably ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1713 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

PLEASURE: ITS PURSUIT AND ENJOYMENT: Miss Langley Moore's Book is Full of Treasures; and a Selection of Other ..

... and so are the autobiographical glimpses, and the vignettes of the father nimbly arranging a twist of bread-and-butter and asparagus, or mother pursuing a child with a chicken patty or a glass of sherry to stave off any sinking feeling between meals. Altogether ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1810 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review