Strong words of praise. Let me justify them. Memories with Food is an affectionate portrait of life at Gipsy House in Bucking-hamshire, England. Their lively presence is captured in Jan Baldwin's striking color photographs and Quentin Blake's whimsical drawings. No lunch is ever eaten without a comment or a discussion or a criticism or an accolade.
Good eating is also a favorite form of shared experience.
They have enjoyed many pleasures in foreign bistros and restaurants, especially in the Loire and Burgundy, but also in Holland and Portugal and Sicily. In France we have had hundreds of superb and simple meals, nearly always in establishments that have no Michelin stars, and in southern Portugal, on a balcony overlooking a deep valley, we once had fresh Dover sole that for some reason was twice as good as any we had tasted before. These miracles happen and the moments should be savoured. These moments form the substance of the narrative. My favorite concerns a book-signing Roald Dahl was conducting in Arnhem, a city in Holland.