Colonel Kenney-Herbet ‘Wyvern’ greatly influenced Elizabeth David in her studies of spices
in the English kitchen. Wyvern’s Culinary Jottings for Madras, first appeared in 1878
and was written to instruct memsahibs in India on how to produce good Anglo-Indian food in
the Victorian style with the ingredients available and also to instruct mystified native
cooks on the English appetite. He returned to Britain to set up a successful cookery school
in London.
