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Christmas Cookery Books

Elfreda Pownall L ast year Jamie Oliver was seen on television grinning with pleasure as a class of tiny Italian children accurately named every vegetable he held up to them. He......

A Mixed Blessing

Matthew Dennison M URIEL P ULLS I T O FF by Susanna Johnston Arcadia, £17.99, pp. 175, ISBN 1905147244 ✆ £14.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 ‘L onely hopelessness’ assails......