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Article: Small is beautiful
- Article from:
- The Spectator
- Article date:
- June 3, 2000
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Food for thought
On a flight to Bilbao a few years ago for a weekend conference, I was seated next to Sir Jeremy Isaacs, then general director of the Royal Opera House. Having introduced myself, I was slightly taken aback by his first words. `Aha,' he exclaimed, `broad beans!' Was this, I wondered, an obscure operatic reference, or a form of masonic greeting? Or perhaps Sir Jeremy was anticipating his first meal in Spain. It turned out that he had read and, amazingly, remembered an article of mine two years earlier in The Spectator on the subject of this exquisite vegetable.
It must be given to few people to write twice about broad beans in the same magazine. After a six-year interval, ...
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