Introduction

When you study an old photograph for several minutes, examining every detail, the image seems to come alive. If you also have a diary relating to when the picture was taken, lost memories vividly return - of places, people, adventures, surprises, and one of life’s greatest pleasures, food. This is what happened to me when I began to plan this book, looking back through my photograph albums, which cover a period of sixty years, and re-reading diaries, travel notebooks, letters and hundreds of recipes.