The Red Lion in the 1930s A Georgian Giles Coren Extracts from an anonymous ‘ Review of Taverns , Inns, Coffee Houses and Genteel E...

Found--a cutting of an interesting article from the mid 1920s by Walter M. Gallichan , journalist, novelist and writer on health, sex educat...

Leoni printed this praise from the film actress Evelyn Laye in a tiny promotional booklet reprinted to coincide with the Festival of Britain...

Found in this comprehensive work aimed at serious travellers, explorers and survivalists - a letter about pemmican. The book is a two volum...

From "As We Like it" Recipes by Famous People edited  by Kenneth Downey  (Arthur Barker, London 1950.)  There is much mention of...

From "As We Like it" Recipes by Famous People edited  by Kenneth Downey  (Arthur Barker, London 1950.) Famous people include...

The second part of a posting of a complete book How to be Happy on the Riviera by Robert Elson W. (Arrowsmith Ltd., 11 Quay Street, Brist...

Forwarded to us by a loyal jot watcher. One restaurant was favoured by celebrities - Johnnie Mills, Bobby Howes, Coral Browne, Sandy Pow...

Another 'once met' jot - this from tireless jotter RMR. He reminds me there was anthology of such meetings edited by Michael Ondaatj...

We were sent this interesting reminiscence by a jotwatcher (thanks JWB). He points out that our 'I once met' posts depend on one hav...

A review of the Le Matelot restaurant found in  Bon Viveur's London & the British Isles  (Dakers, London 1955). Bon Viveur was a pse...

A review of the Connaught Hotel's restaurant found in  Bon Viveur's London & the British Isles (Dakers, London 1955). Bon Viveu...

Saus—age—s…! While in the Upper Sixth of the prestigious North London Collegiate School, where her schoolfellows included psychologist Sus...

Memories Beyond Graceland Gates by Mary Jenkins (cook and housekeeper to Elvis known at Graceland as Mary Langston, her married name) publ...

A Venezuelan Cook Book put out by Creole Petroleum Company (published in New York about 1959) - illustrator unknown but not unlike Warhol o...

 From the papers of Edmund George Valpy Knox (1881 - 1971), comic writer, poet and satirist who wrote under the pseudonym Evoe. He was edito...

An early work on the subject. The author gives the names of two London suppliers of all the ingredients used in the book - Stembridge in Cec...

Press cutting (Sunday Times, London?) dated 1960 found in a copy of Aytoun Ellis's book Essence of Beauty . Interesting how the modern ...