Dress immediately the pasta with the sauce and a sprinkling of Parmesan.

THE British Guild of Food Writers was founded on April 12, 1984, when a small group of food writers met over a superb lunch, amongst them Jane Grigson, Elizabeth David, Arabella Boxer and Michael Smith.

COMING up to Christmas lots of newly published cookbooks arrived on my desk. There were so many that I simply couldn’t manage to mull over each one.