The Table Comes First

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Random House, Inc., and The Wylie Agency LLC for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Grub First, Then Ethics” (previously titled “On Installing an American Kitchen in Lower Austria,” copyright © 1958 by Edward Mendelson, William Meredith and Monroe K. Spears, Executors of the Estate of W. H. Auden, from Collected Poems of W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden.

Photograph of Elizabeth Pennell © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.