First, a great news for the gourmets - the celebrated ''Culinary jottings: Treatise in thirty chapters on reformed cookery for Anglo-Indian rites'' by Wyvern aka Colonel A. R. (Arthur Robert) Kenney-Herbert 1840- 1916, published in 1885 by Higginbotham and Co. of Madras, is now online. Download this digitised copy for no cost and avoid paying the absurd prices booksellers keep asking for real copies. http://www.archive.org/details/culinaryjottings00kenn And here is a latest write-up in praise of this old classic - The return of Culinary Jottings for Madras >From The Economic Times, Bombay, dated 3 May, 2008. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/The_Leisure_Lounge/The_return_of_Culinary_Jottings_for_Madras/articleshow/3006067.cms The writer Vikram Doctor has done his homework, but clearly he forgot to look for the book on the net. I have just now revealed this secret, and in return, expect an invitation to a series of festive dinners. (GRIN) ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India