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The Centaur's Kitchen

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The Centaur's Kitchen is a wonderfully evocative cookery manual by one of England's greatest modern food-writers. It was written in 1964, at the request of the Blue Funnel Line shipping company chairman, to better instruct their Chinese cooks in cooking fresh and flavoursome food. In a few short chapters, Patience Gray lays out a whole repertoire, drawn mainly from the Mediterranean and France, that might be cooked on board ships. Her aim was to wean the cooks off frozen, dried and packeted...