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The browser: Gourmet food for thought - and no need to queue for the toilets
From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20061210
Author:Stuart Kelly
The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote a comedy called The Women At The Thesmophoria Festival in which a sharp-tongued member of the Athenian literati received his comeuppance when he sneaked into a women-only cultural celebration. Memories of the play were unaccountably echoing around my head last Thursday as I tentatively went to the Point Hotel in Edinburgh for the last Gliterary Lunch of 2006.
These events offer "good books, good food and good company" and feature two speakers - in this case Victoria Hislop, whose romance novel, The Island, set on a Greek leper colony, won the ...
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