We are now well into the Great Vegetable Revolution. 'For the majority of the population,' writes Jane Grigson, 'vegetables as a delight, to be eaten on their own, belong to this century, even to the period after the Second World War.' She gives much of the credit for this shift in taste to Elizabeth David, who in the 1950s preached that the fruits of the earth were more than mere adjuncts to flesh. Now the high price of meat is doing Mrs David's work for her.

LRB 3 July 1980 | PDF Download