A couple of years later, she retired from the kitchen for good, leaving Lexington in charge of all household cooking. The boy was now ten years old and Aunt Glosspan was nearly eighty.

With the kitchen to himself, Lexington straight away began experimenting with dishes of his own invention. The old favourites no longer interested him. He had a violent urge to create. Never before in her life, Aunt Glosspan declared, had she tasted such food as this.

“You know what you aught to do,” his aunt said to him. “You aught to set yourself down this very minute with paper and pencil and write a cooking-book.” And that very day, Lexington began writing the first page of that monumental work that was to occupy him for the rest of his life. He called it Eat Good and Healthy.

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