I should like to thank all the authors and publishers who have given me permission to quote from their books, and all the friends and acquaintances who have looked out recipes, lent me books, and generally given support and encouragement. In particular, I am deeply grateful to the following:
Mark Amory; Hilary Arnold; Mrs Jonathan Blackburn; Kate Boxer; Hugh Cecil; Chatto & Windus, for recipes from Party Food and Drink by Rosemary Hume; Mrs Dorothy Child; Glynn Christian; Condé Nast Publications Ltd, for recipes from Vogue, and Vogue’s Cookery Book; Constable Publishers, for recipes from Eat at Pleasure: Drink by Measure by Olof Wijk; Country Life, for recipes from Lightning Cookery by Countess Morphy; Lillie Davies; J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, for recipes from Come into the Garden, Cook, by Constance Spry, and The Constance Spry Cookery Book by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume, and Good Cookery by W. G. R. Francillon; André Deutsch Ltd, for a recipe from Personal Choice by Ambrose Heath; Polly Devlin; the Duchess of Devonshire; Duckworth Ltd, for recipes from When the Cook Is Away by Catherine Ives, and Be Your Own Chef by Lucie Marion; Catherine Forshall; James Fox; Hamish Hamilton Ltd, for recipes from The Complete Hostess by Quaglino; the late Lady Harrod; the late Lady Dorothy Heber-Percy; Harrods Ltd, for recipes from A Year’s Dinners by May Little; William Heinemann Ltd, for recipes from What Shall We Have Today? and What Shall We Have To Drink? by X. Marcel Boulestin, reprinted by permission of the Peters Fraser and Dunlop Group Ltd; Adrian Higham, for recipes from Vegetable Cultivation and Cookery by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde; the late Lady Anne Hill; Lord Hindlip, for the recipe from Minnie Lady Hindlip’s Cookery Book; Houghton Mifflin Company, for recipes from June Platt’s Plain and Fancy Cookbook; the late Lord Kelvedon, for material from the diaries of his father, Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon; the late Mrs Nancy Lancaster; Mrs Elizabeth Lewthwaite; the late Loelia, Lady Lindsay of Dowhill; Jane Longman; Macdonald Group, for recipes from Food in England by Dorothy Hartley; the late David McKenna CBE; the late Lady John Manners; Paul Manousso; Methuen & Co., for recipes from The Perfect Hostess by Rose Henniker Heaton; Michael Joseph Ltd, for recipes from The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, and Wheeler’s Fish Cookery Book by Macdonald Hastings and Carole Walsh; Joyce Molyneux; the late Nigel Nicolson OBE; the Nonesuch Press, for recipes from Lovely Food by Ruth Lowinsky; the late Tom Parr; the late Frances Partridge; the late Jennifer Paterson; Max Reinhardt; Mrs Maud Shimwell; Mrs Michael Stanley, for recipes from English Country House Cooking; Mrs Oliver Steele; Sir Tatton Sykes; the Vogue Library; Lucy Ward; Francis Wyndham.