Proof positive that mediocre prose, coupled with nostalgia and a little light exotism mixed in, can be milked for all it is worth.
I can do mediocre prose, but the trouble is everybody's at it these days. He had the virtue of being first. keep to the Fen Causeway
Later they moved on to Peruvian cocoa, but I guess Mayle was old school. You can't be me, I'm taken