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I’ve been looking at Elizabeth David cookbooks and trying to get a sense of what it must have been like cooking in London in the early 1950s. Provisions were clearly a lot more scarce and the range of choices we have grown accustomed to over the past few years simply didn’t exist. She was famous for introducing mediterranean cooking to England with her cookbook. Evidently olive oil was hard to find and so she recommends buying it at a pharmacy. I gather there’s a BBC film out on her which I’d love to see.

I’ve also been looking at the Camberwell College of the Arts website and trying to make sense of their values and who they list as their famous alumni. I remember researching Euan Uglow years ago when I was a student at NSCAD and my friend Doug Kirton was interested in this particular technique of measurment that he had evolved and developed as a mannered method of marking which remained as a device with his paintings.

I wonder if they ever met? I can imagine them meeting over dinner during the winter of 1950 at William Coldstream’s before he left Camberwell for the Slade.