Is There a Nutmeg in the House? - Tapa dura

The brilliant sequel to Elizabeth David's bestselling book, AN OMELETTE AND A GLASS OF WINE. While gathering material for the anthology of Elizabeth David's work, SOUTH WIND THROUGH THE KITCHEN (published 1997), Jill Norman, her literary executor, realised that there was still enough work to make a second volume of collected pieces. The first, AN OMELETTE AND A GLASS OF WINE, was a major bestseller of which the Sunday Times said: 'This compilation of Elizabeth David's short pieces on food and wine is irresistible. Well-tempered in judgement, exquisite in evocation, delectable in point of recipes ... no one writes with a more whetted discrimination, more pith or passion.'

Elizabeth David was the best food writer of her time, and even today is considered to be without peer. She died in 1992, and the paperback of the authorised biography by Artemis Cooper, WRITING AT THE KITCHEN TABLE, will be published in October.