Memorial Service for Elizabeth David
Memorial Service for Elizabeth David CBE 1913 - 1992 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, Thursday 10 September 1992. Octavo (205x140mm) stiff pictorial card, stapled [4]pp. Fine/-
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Memorial Service for Elizabeth David CBE 1913 - 1992 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, Thursday 10 September 1992.
Octavo (205x140mm) stiff pictorial card wraps, stapled [4]pp. Designed by Sheppard Day Associates Ltd. Illustrations by John Minton from Elizabeth David's French Country Cooking John Lehman, 1951.
Elizabeth David CBE [née Gwynne (1913-1992)] died at the age of 78 on 22 May 1992. The funeral took place at the family church St Peter's ad Vincula, Folkington on 28 May 1992. Her memorial service took place in the following Autumn.
"It was a sunny day.... There had not been more than a brief announcement in the press, but the church was packed with chefs and restaurateurs, food critics, cookery writers and wine writers - not to mention a great throng of family and friends.... Alice Waters spoke of her gratitude....Hugh Johnson observed that she 'combined the writing of an angel with a certain celestial invisibility'.... Gerald Asher remembered her sitting in his kitchen in San Francisco..." ¹
After the service, chefs Sally Clarke, Simon Hopkinson and Martin Lam gave a celebratory picnic in her memory:
"...bocconcini with basil leaves, marinated lentil and goat-cheese salad, tarts of spinach and gruyère, baby beetroots and chives, Piedmontese peppers, spiced aubergine salad, grilled tuna with red onion and beans, and a 'salade de museau'. With it the guests drank a Macon Prissé 1991 and a Morgon Château Gaillard 1991....It was a profoundly happy and convivial meal." ²
§ No identifiable holdings
¹ Cooper, Artemis. Writing at the Kitchen Table: the authorized autobiography of Elizabeth David, Ecco, 2000 p.335
2. ibid p.336
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Price: $750.00 AUD