Shameless PLUG: Buy the October issue of Petits Propos Culinaires.

Issue 101 of the exemplary culinary periodical operated by the erudite and personable Tom Jaine now may be purchased online from Prospect Books at http://prospectbooks.co.uk , other online sellers and better culinary bookstores like Kitchen Arts & Letters in Manhattan.

PPC 101 includes an essay by the Editor, writing as Blake Perkins. It is “George Orwell and the Defence of English Food” and, we modestly hope, alone worth the roughly $10 price of the periodical.