Link: Lee Miller’s tale - Times Online .
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“I was living here up to the age of eight and for a small kid it was great,” recalls Tony Penrose. “I remember Man Ray with particular affection; he was so funny and witty. I remember Dubuffet and Carrington, and, of course, Picasso. He was wonderful and so generous to me. I was totally unaware that these guys were the greats of 20th century art.”
"Miller had always been a compulsive cook with a passionate interest in food (when she died there were 4,000 cookery books in the house), and during these years entertaining friends, she developed the art of high surrealist cuisine.
"Extravagant flights of fancy were indulged, and she and her guests invented new dishes with memorable names, “baptised after their creators or some private joke or local event such as Chanctonbury Ring, Dog-house Cake, Sauce Maudite and Orlando Furioso”. There was a heavy emphasis in the ingredients on alcohol, and guests would stagger to the table for lunch around 4pm or dinner around midnight to face cauliflower breasts in pink sauce, cod with carrots and sherry or marshmallow and Coca-Cola ice-cream with rum. There was something very surreal about all this high bohemia going on in the gentle English countryside.
"But life at Farley Farm was not all fun. Miller was a very complex woman...."
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