tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764631039755560338.post5390388979287616867..comments2024-03-08T20:21:22.820+00:00Comments on The Deighton Dossier: In the days before flat whites and skinny moccachinos, there was .... chaggaDeighton Dossierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764108300942425651noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764631039755560338.post-92188760683354883962017-08-26T09:39:56.843+01:002017-08-26T09:39:56.843+01:00Interesting relationship with thriller writers and...Interesting relationship with thriller writers and coffee! I have read about Ian Fleming's love of Blue Mountain Coffee, which he enjoyed in his Winter hideout in Jamaica where he typed all his James Bond novels.<br />I have cultural ties with Mysore and have tasted Mysore Blend for years in my younger days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764631039755560338.post-85140979582990350992017-08-23T21:44:03.354+01:002017-08-23T21:44:03.354+01:00Author MIKE RIPLEY has shared this anecdote with t...Author MIKE RIPLEY has shared this anecdote with the DD in response to this article on chagga:<br /><br />"Shortly after starting to work in London in 1978, I discovered H.R.Higgins coffee merchant near Bond Street tube station.<br /><br />I was often served by the legendary Miss Higgins herself, who once invited me to join in a professional tasting session of a new crop of beans, which was conducted at length with great ceremony, whilst she was on the phone to the grower in Kenya!<br /><br />My particular vice was their Mocha/Mysore blend, sadly discontinued, ground in the old red grinder which also “pulverised” the beans. I would regularly phone through my order during the day and it would be waiting – wrapped in brown paper and tied with string – in the shop’s “Out” tray for collection on my way to the tube. I quickly realised I had picked the right coffee merchant when, one evening, I collected my order, which was one of three parcels in the Out tray. The other two were labelled: “The Duke of Edinburgh” and “Mr Len Deighton”.<br /><br />Priceless.Deighton Dossierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01764108300942425651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764631039755560338.post-80531636642972458872017-08-04T09:58:28.953+01:002017-08-04T09:58:28.953+01:00I think in all of Deighton's books, food and q...I think in all of Deighton's books, food and quality eating is an ever present, reflecting his own personal experiences and interests.Deighton Dossierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01764108300942425651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764631039755560338.post-89599994777976307462017-08-04T01:15:02.785+01:002017-08-04T01:15:02.785+01:00Good post thanks Rob.
Cruyer is a fantastic chara...Good post thanks Rob.<br /><br />Cruyer is a fantastic character and the interplay with Samson provides many of my highlights through the series.<br />Deighton's expertise in creating such subtleties in the power-plays and general exchanges between characters is an aspect of his writing that keeps me returning to his books. Cruyer recognising Bernards attempt to annoy him and Bernard taunting Cruyer's sensibilities by requesting the cream. While Dicky establishes the class hierarchy, Bernard has the temerity to poke fun at it.<br />If anyone caught any episodes in the second series of the TV drama 'The Fixer', I imagined Elliot Cowan's portrayal of an ambitious Mi6 officer to be modeled somewhat on Deighton's Cruyer (although plot lines lacked opportunity for such subtleties).<br />Given modern society's preoccupation with aspirational tv cookery and finding the next 'exclusive' coffee roast etc. I wonder if Deighton's knowledge and use of (highbrow, as it may of been in the 60's and 70's) cuisine and coffee as a device would hold the same fascination today?...cameron duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12706713303473723903noreply@blogger.com