A fan of the New Journalism, she put a premium on lively prose and colorful detail, throwing overboard the pompousness of the professional gourmets who dominated the profession.

Anyway,he added, with the touch of the true optimist,it's lucky I watched her, or she'd have carried off the whole bang shoot in less than thirty minutes."

in those days of highwaymen and scourers

I am, unashamedly an Anglophile and, if there is such a word, a Londonphile. My first trip to London did not come until February 1964.