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...introduced by Caesar's men.) English cuisine, even more than the French, is most notable for its regional diversities, which Ayrton explores and exalts with expertise and charm. She tells how to confect Wiltshire lardy cake and Yorkshire hot wine pudding, chickens as lizards and rum roast of lamb (for the sailor's return) -not to mention belly-warming Bedfordshire clangers, Oxfordshire sweet devil or the great Melton Mowbray pie, which long before the sandwich was the foxhunter's favorite lunch munch...
...ancient cook lived with the fraternity. But as one middle-aged alumnus mournfully reports, "We came back one day to say 'hello' to Chef, to give him a hug as we always did because we loved him so much, and discovered that he had died." Aside from his pot roast, the old man was always a favorite because "there was inevitably some form of socializing going on in the cook's quarters when he went out Saturday nights...
Instead, chronic complainers all, they blame Edward Gierek and the Soviets and tell bitter jokes to relieve the frustration. Like the one about the old woman who hobbles into a butcher shop and asks first for pork roast, then for lamb, then for veal. On being told that there is none, she storms out. "What a nuisance," gripes the first butcher. "Maybe," replies the second, "but what a memory...
...states passed. They telephoned the Kennedy trailer at the Garden to inquire and were told: "They are just having trouble counting their people." Kennedy realized he was losing, but sounded relaxed. "I guess I had better get something to eat," he said and stepped across the hall for some roast lamb sent up by room service...
Traveling farther afield, the city's only high school--one block east of Harvard Yard--is ringed by pizza places. Black students congregate at one and whites frequent another, but late nights both Angelos and Mass House of Pizza are accessible to all. Get a roast beef sub at Angelos, then wander across the high school campus for a large cheese pie at "Mass House...