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Archive for 16/04/2009
Clement Freud
16/04/2009 by admin.
My sympathies to the family of Clement Freud.
I met him once when Virgin hired him to devise a new on-board menu for their West Coast trains.
I took Mrs S on what I told her would be a luxury trip to London, rubbing shoulders with VIPs. We went down on a morning train, enjoying what still is the great British breakfast. We met in the First Class lounge at Euston at about 11.30am…and then were taken straight to a Manchester train where we were immediately served lunch, arriving back in Manchester before 3pm.
The food was good, despite its proximity to breakfast and I wish I could say Sir Clement belied his image and was charming company. He didn’t - and he wasn’t.
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