Recipes

A Russian soldier in a fur cap goes by with a rifle over his shoulder. and men in overcoats sip ersatz coffee in the windows of Old Vienna.

Martins was eating a hamburger in the American canteen (a kindly airline supplied the passengers with a voucher for sixty-five cents ' worth of food) when a man he could recognize from twenty feet as a journalist approached his table.

The trouble was too that it really only had one drink - a sweet chocolate liqueur that the waiter improved at a price with cognac - 

We had a whole small room to ourselves, the only couple were next door, and the waiter, who knew me, left us alone with some caviar sandwiches.