And even under the happiest circumstances, those who love cooking together face the challenge of pleasing younger people and palates.
"But clubs have to have something to please young people," he said.
It is also the rare venue that seems able to please young and old (you could imagine Joni Mitchell on the dance floor with her grandkids).
The broadest of the excluded categories is that of unblushingly commercial and harmlessly transient writing, including comic books, much of which, though it may please young readers, and often for good reasons, is for the purposes of this article notable only for its sociohistorical, rather than literary, importance.
And what he wisely chose to do was please young, world-weary women whose idea of Saint Laurent is not a safari jacket and thigh-high boots, the epitome of 70's cool, but rather a new thing -- a slouchy white tuxedo with wide, cuffed trousers and a tight top scooped low enough to suggest a cummerbund.
It wasn't just the points haul that will have pleased young and unsung skipper, Gareth Roderick, but the way his team fought back from conceding 439 first-innings runs to Worcestershire, a total boosted by Jack Shantry's extraordinary charge from 50 to 100 in just 14 balls.
Oh, and a plate of king prawns too, please, young man.
He then adds: "Please young women out there, think of yourself... think about what people will say about you when you're not around; stuff people will say behind your back".
Their subjects could be international titans such as Vladimir Nabokov, and limited-vocabulary hip-hop exponents to please younger readers.
Wabi Sabi's quest and the splendid pictures will please younger children (though probably not as young as the publisher's recommended range of 3 to 6).
