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Felipe Fernández-Armesto revives a simple English classic

THE DETECTIVE STORY WAS 86 years old, but the news item seemed to echo it: young bloggers in America are astonishing their readers by praising English food. I laid aside Edgar Jepson’s entertaining ironies to read all about it, although his description of the detective’s dinner in The Murder of Augustin Dench had fascinated me: It was not food which called for thoughtful eating, for it was the ordinary food of the English countryside; the mutton chops, imported from a colony or Dominion, were of a texture which demanded the most sturdy exercise of the inspector’s powerful jaw, and that texture had not been improved by the country cook; the tart was composed of Czechoslovakian currants and Jugoslavian raspberries … surmounted by a sodden crust of that sogginess which goes…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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