When David Frost died in 2013, a former colleague, Geoffrey Cannon, wrote to the Guardian, remembering his penchant for a fry-up. “In 1961 David Frost was editing Granta – then a magazine – and I was editing Oxford Opinion,” he wrote. “We agreed a joint issue. I went to Cambridge, and slept on David’s floor. In the morning a man knocked on the door with a full English. David gave him a tip and explained: ‘He’s my taxi driver.’ I said it never occurred to me that a taxi driver would buy and bring breakfast. ‘They do if you ask,’ said David with a grin.”
The trick here is timing: cook tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, potatoes and meaty things first and keep warm in the oven, along with warming plates. (Don’t leave for longer than 15 minutes, though, or the food will dry out.) Then cook enough toast (or fried bread) for everyone, butter, and keep warm, too. Finally cook the eggs and serve them straight from the pan.
