Thursday, July the 21st, 2005

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Local Recipe Map

Readers may recall that one of my favourite publications is Further Science by Norman Davies. (See Hedge Auras, 20 February 2004.) I have still not managed to track down any other issues than Book 20, the marvellous A6 yellow-covered spineless 76-page pamphlet from 2001 which, maddeningly, contains no indication of its provenance. Here is Mr Davies' Local Recipe Map, reprinted exactly as it appears in the original:

1. Far NE Scotland—marmalade / far NW—biscuits / far North—fish.
2. Mid SW to NE—Devon / Yorks—rolls—cheese -sausage / cheese.
3. So that about a Midlands triangular Pie Nucleus—there are fingers and eggs: hot pots, to the NW—marmalade / ham / loaf to the East. With a ginger NW apex.
4. Tarts to the South—with W/E in the far South. Dumplings and Welsh herbs / cakes / fish puddings and scones. Etc.

I think we need to arrange a Hooting Yard expedition to the Midlands triangular Pie Nucleus!