Old marks and spencer cookery books

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A photograph, however, suggests otherwise. On the menu tonight: a Polo-shaped lump of cold porridge, from the centre of which watercress unaccountably sprouts like fungus from a damp wall. Regular readers of this column will recall that, not so long ago, I vowed to kick my addiction to cookbooks. Fearing that I would be found, like Leonard Bast in Howard s End , crushed beneath a vast pile of old Jane Grigsons, I decided that I would buy no new cookbooks in the near future; and those I hardly ever opened, I duly delivered to Oxfam. But some things are so hard to give up.

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