‘Eating is not merely a material pleasure, eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale’ – Elsa Schiaparelli
I was first initiated to the British mode of civilized behaviour many years ago on a business trip when I was asked by a colleague ‘will you dine tonight?’ Being a fresh import to the UK at the time, my immediate reaction was ‘Are you nuts? Of course I am going to eat after a hard day’s work’.