Beryl Bainbridge ,
I EAT alone in bed because it is a disgusting habit and makes me feel deca- dent. In the middle of the night I favour fried peanut sandwiches, with a side help- ing of raw......
Alexandra Artley
PROBABLY four evenings a month I am a `committee widow'. While agenda are ploughed through and planning law de- ciphered, I put the children to bed. If there is nothing more......
Anita Brookner
LONDON'S best-kept secret: Durrant's Hotel. Frequented by the less excitable kind of business man, it is affable, digni- fied, and well-established: Arnold Bennett would have......
Wine And Food
Where I eat alone Harold Acton SOLITARY meditation promotes serenity but solitary mastication induces boredom and anorexia. If eating alone fails to stimulate appetite, it makes......
Max Hastings
THE secret of happiness when eating alone is to gain possession of a reading stand to hide behind, and only clubs are civilised enough to provide one. In the evening, I hide......
Kingsley Amis
ONLY a thoroughly miserable fellow would throw away the chance of a party and elect to eat alone in a public place. But only a lazy or a phenomenally robust one goes to half a......
The Picture Above Is By Hugh Dodd, Who Has An
exhibition at Colnaghi's, 14 Old Bond Street, from 8-24 December.......
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