SC - no longer Re: Taillevent bio
Bonne of Traquair
oftraquair at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 27 15:28:50 PST 2000
>
>Digby appears to have been a knight in a non-culinary right; cookery,
>brewing, mazing, etc., seem to have been sidelines. I seem to recall
>reading that he had been both a diplomat and a spy for various English
>Crowns. I know there's a fairly detailed (if short) bio of Digby in Eric
>Quayle's "Old Cook Books".
And a random factoid I learned while shopping for books this Christmas (a
process that involves several hours of thumbing through every book that
looks remotely interesting to me, before quickly purchasing the three books
I knew I wanted before entering the store.)
Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman is the daughter of Sir Kinelm Digby, the
11th baron of (wherever it was.)
Bonne
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