Stouts Hill the family, including Colonel Browne. Stouts Hill was the birthplace reputedly of the Gloucestershire historian, Samuel Rudder, and of the distinguished Persian scholar Edward Granville Browne. From 1935 until 1979 it was let for use as a private boys' preparatory school in which some 100 pupils were boarders. Notable former pupils of the school include Stephen Fry, who makes a detailed reference to the school in his autobiography, "Moab Is My Washpot", and Captain Mark Phillips, former husband of Anne, the Princess Royal. http://www.stoutshill.co.uk/<br> http://stoutshillschool.blogspot.com/ Stouts Hill Stouts Hill is an 18th-Century Gothic revival country house situated in the Cotswolds,
Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites dough disks on hot rocks for breakfast in the desert to daylong meals during a cold Maine winter." "The New York Times" found it "a paean to cooking and food, from the homey to the haute" and "a toothsome blend of personal and social history." "Blue Plate Special" has also been reviewed by "Publishers Weekly", "Kirkus Reviews", "The Wall Street Journal", "Library Journal", "BookList", and "The Christian Science Monitor". Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography Of My Appetites is a 2013 memoir by Kate Christensen from when she was a girl growing up