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Let us eat (cup) cakes.(Peggy Porschen)
Publication: Spectator Publication Date: 30-SEP-06 Author: Simhon, Rachel
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COPYRIGHT 2006 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
Do you know anyone who doesn't like cake? I don't mean those who avoid it for 'health' reasons, but someone who genuinely dislikes it? And if you did, wouldn't you instinctively mistrust that person?
For though the efforts of Mr Kipling et al mean we could if we wanted eat cake every day, there resides in a corner of our national psyche the memory of cake as the treat and the luxury it once was. In her lovely 1974 book The Cookery of England, Elisabeth Ayrton quotes a very old Suffolk farm labourer who said that when he was a child, towards the end of the 19th century, the children in his village 'would go anywhere...
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