Churchill’s Cookbook – by Georgina Landemare

Having been the guinea pig on whom these modernized Landemare recipes were tested before publication, I found myself like Churchill “quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.”

Churchill took over the Colonial Office three weeks before Harding took over the White House.

This quotation is now going around the web attrib­uted to Churchill. Is it accu­rate? “Social­ism is a phi­los­o­phy of fail­ure, the creed of igno­rance, and the gospel of envy, its inher­ent virtue is the equal shar­ing of misery.”

In the position in which our small band of friends now is it is a great mistake ever to take points off one another. The only rule is: Help each other when you can, but never harm. Never help the Bear.

Here is an examination of that brainchild in the fertile mind of Winston Churchill: the Royal Naval Division. Unique in military history, the RND was a hybrid unit of seamen serving as infantry alongside soldiers of the British Army.

Churchill uses this phrase in The Gathering Storm1 nine times. Consider each instance and whether in fact there was doubt, as some of his critics have alleged.

he long relationship began in 1897 when the young army officer wrote his first article (or letter) from the field, along the Afghan/Indian frontier. It culminated with The Telegraph’s extensive coverage of Churchill’s funeral in 1965.

Churchill wrote that this was “a severe and improvident condition for both borrower and lender. ‘They hired the money, didn't they?’ said President Coolidge. This laconic statement was true, but not exhaustive,”

Q: After the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, Churchill provided skin from his left forearm to one Dick Molyneux. Do you know what happened to him?

Not even Martin Gilbert records communications between Churchill and President Taft, that famous maintainer of the status-quo, perhaps because, during the Taft Administration, Churchill’s career was mostly focused on domestic matters.

A reader has written to ask if Alfred, Lord Tennyson was Churchill’s favorite poet. We don’t know if Tennyson headed Churchill’s list, but he certainly ranked high.