Diary Extracts, 2

April to July and a recipe for An English Summer Minestra

2 April 2022

When we get to H.’s I feel, for a while, rather tongue-tied and awkward having not been to a party in a while, or not one without a Spanish person looking after me. H. and her friend P. and roommate M. are all wearing flouncy 18thc dresses, “a blacker, better Bridgeton” someone says. The house is nice, there is a suckling pig on the side boa…