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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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|comment=My meeting with mister Tovey was indeed set within Miller Howe kitchen. I had lost my home through marriage breakdown. I have moved into rented property in Windermere near the great Tovey establishment. My only assest was that I had been on Border TV that week with my new book on history entitled Window on Westmorland. A pictorial look at the county before the Government changes to our borders. Cumbria now included parts of Yorkshire Lancashire and even Cumberland. i had something to say and it was publish.I tried to sell as many as I could myself. On a chance way my dear Momma had dined recently at Miller Howe with friends and she suggested I try all hotels to explain my book to sell on receptions. On meeting John Tovey in the morning in his kitchen office at a chef meeting I felt wrong in asking. Then John Tovey gave my book time in all that meeting he gave me time. It resulted in my first sale of 6 books. He said he was to leave in every guest room.He wished me luck and his man paid me the exact sum asked. It gave me my start and I thank him for his good nature in helping someone he had no idea of. In return later I bought his book and treasure the many good recipes as I love cooking. I am now retired and have left UK to build a house in six acres of now landscaped gardens all built myself with no help. I read that Mister Tovey also left UK to retire into South Africa. I wish him well and thank him for his way of helping me. He could have said ,as many would, I am busy and a great man so on your way. He did not and left my thinking high of him.
I hope he is happy and that is all I wish to say.
Yours faithfully,
Sir Kevin Parr ,Baronet.
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