Cooks' Tour

New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 370, 26 July 1946, Page 15

Cooks' Tour

T has taken me a long time to get round to listening to "Men in the Kitchen" from 2YA, but now I am moved to repent my earlier absenteeism. Mr. White evidently believes with BrillatSavarin that it is more important to man’s happiness to discover a new dish than a new star (Mr. Rank please note), and introduces his heroes of the hotpoint with the gusto of Richard Singer introducing a legal luminary. (Their microphonic

technique is in fact very similar, and we have no doubt that if Mr. White could tear himself away from the _ table he might himself become a Famnue Fiocure of at

any rate the Milk Bar.) In last week’s talk Mr. White introduced two well-known English amateur cooks, Philip Morton Shand and Sir Francis Colchester-Wemyss, both of whom won their preliminary culinary battles on the study fires of Eton. They claim to be "just normal amateur eaters" and, being

amateurs, equally interested in production ‘and consumption. But over the air their bons mots had a more immediate appeal than their bons plats, and we particularly liked Sir Francis’ "A man may travel extensively and find nothing more interesting than his own dinner," which must be a great comfort to those wandervogel who cannot get their exit permits.