"That was one of Harry's bachelor habits that he'd tried to get her to adopt: not cooking dinner for themselves. She had more or less bought this argument that restaurants are one of civilisation's better ideas. That even back in the Stone Age they had figured out that cooking and eating together was smarter than the entire population spending three hours every day planning, buying, cooking and washing-up."
Probably our next neighbourhood restaurant exploration will be "Ginger and Chili..Szechuan Cuisine"...just a couple of doors down from the Japanese place we liked so much. They don't appear to have duck on the menu but loads of interesting stuff to choose from and being Szechuan, there will be hot spicey stuff for Jim.
