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The Miller Howe Cookbook by John Tovey (view source)
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|name=Stan Williams
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|comment=INTERESTING READING THE COMMENTS ON JOHN TOVEY AND MILLER HOWE
BUT BEING A RELATIVE OF JOHN (NOT DIRECT) I THOUGHT MOST OF HIS RECIPES WAS BASED ON HIS GRAND MOTHERS COOKING AMI WRONG?
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|name=Sue
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|comment=I'm not certain about the origin of the recipes, Stan, but the food reminds me of country house cooking and, yes, there might well be influences from a time gone by. It's not dated, by any means and it's still a book that I refer to on a regular basis.
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|name= John Tovey
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|comment= I THINK I sold Miller Howe in 1992 but am, these days, so blissfully HAPPY living in a small village called McGregor in the Western Cape and these last two years have been undoubtedly the happiest in my life having before lived in Cape Town for twenty !! It was only today at our Tapestry Class a lady told me she had read all about me on your column and she helped me to find it on my computer which I basically use solely as a typewriter ! It brought back so many memories and what you said about Miller Howe in 1990 was absolutely true. But then I had had a heart replacement, two new hips, one knee - which causes me such pain, agony and frustration on a daily basis – but if that is all I have to complain about I consider myself the luckiest bod on earth !
Quite a few of my old, long standing staff (when I sold fourteen had been with me in our three establishment for over twenty two years) still keep in touch and many have done so well in this profession successfully running their own businesses and I presume now near retirement dates themselves !! I still love cooking and have an ever extending file of new dishes I have created in my retirement ... but far too lazy to write yet another book with all the entailed pressures. Regards JOHN TOVEY
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