Goose ... Gander ... Sauce

Tuesday, 19 November 2002

Aaron Oakley shows a fine, Shakespearian sense of metaphor in dishing up some well aged gander-sauce to John Quiggin. Of course, as the Potemkin's cook would have been able to tell you before he expired from dietary necessity, the thing with gander sauce is that you have to leave it at the back of the larder to seethe for a few months before it acquires any piquancy. I have some especially fine stuff in the galley that was laid down years ago.