Fiona Ross - Dining with Leaders, Rebels, Heroes, and Outlaws

L ike all books, this one is indebted to many people. I want to thank my kindly and talented editor, Ken Albala, for his advice and support. The library staff in the hot and dusty Upper Reading Room of the Bodleian Library has been wonderful, carting endless volumes of peculiar books from deep down in the stacks. Thank you to my dear friend Gillian Harrison for introducing me to the Bodleian and for all her fine companionship there in the golden hours. Thanks to my darlings, Moira and Alastair, for the brandy Alexanders and asparagus sandwiches and for feeding me so wonderfully for the first eighteen years of my life, from breast milk through to moules marinire. Id also like to thank Margaret and Ken Conway for filming me while I curried a goat in their kitchen; Shelley Cooper for helping me roast a suckling pig on a makeshift spit in her back garden; and to the Allen and Harris property-renting agency for allowing me to marinate the aforementioned pig in the bath of the flat they rented to me. To Mary Birtill and Irene Tominey I owe a debt for inspiring me with the Going Foot and to all my Camino friends for walking the way with me. Jane Ganly has been a great help with ICT advice and her intimate knowledge of chocolate; also to Nathan Shelton of Bread and Butter Creative I owe eternal thanks for all his wonderful design work on my website and blog. To Yorick, Roberta, Octavia, Zoe Wilks, and Louise Guthrie I would like to express gratitude for all those mad dining experiments in the Allam Street kitchen, while Pompey hid bananas in her dog basket; and Jean and Richard Haigh I must thank for advice on the vast subject of vegetables. Thank you, Emily Gray, for letting me camp in your attic; and thank you to Willem, Max, Marijke, and Steve for so much laughter. Simon Saunders: I must thank you, dear friend, for your brilliant idea long ago that I write this book. You may have all of Roisins sticks. Let us not also forget Oscar Hughes and his first scrambled eggsthey always taste best when thrown about. Id like to send a kiss to Roisin Ross for being my best, kindest girl forever.

Finally, Id like to express deep-hearted thankfulness to my dear husband and best friend, Gareth Sanger, for all the immense generosity, love, and belief he has shown in giving me a room of my own and 500.

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