And so to lunch…
The late, great and much-missed Clarissa Dickson Wright cooked many a shooting lunch in her time and declared that such meals were very definitely a product of the Edwardians, crediting them for not only the rise of lavish shoot lunches, but also for general excessive behaviour when it came to enjoying the hospitality of game shooting friends.
“The Edwardian house party,” she said, “must have made the best excesses of Sodom and Gomorrah seem tame by comparison – the excitement of corridor creeping; the heady possibility of the heir to the throne cheating at cards; the palpable tension between the sportsmen as the bags were tallied; the 14-course dinners… Clearly they were not going to be content with a stale sandwich – and neither was the greatest gourmet and keenest sportsman of them all, the Prince of Wales. After all, a man who once declared that
