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The Gentleman's Companion - Volume 1 - An Exotic Cookery Book or Around the World with Knife, Fork and Spoon
by Baker, Charles H. Jr
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Derrydale Press, 1939 Numbered 496 in pen of 1250 copies. "including a company of hand-picked receipts, each one beloved & notable in its place, collected faithfully on three voyages & a quarter million miles around the world, & other journeys not forgetting: Certain valuable words to the wise, gleaned from divers chefs in many & strange places; & the home formulae for construction of such intriguing exotics as hell-fire bitters, Key West old lime sour, herb vinegars; to say nothing of various strange and delicious sauces & bastings for fish, flesh, fowl & the wilder games." xix, 10 chapters. appendix. index of recipes. 220 pages. Page foredges and bottom edges uncut and some pages unopened. 8vo 9 1/2" x 6 1/2". Two types of red cloth (faux leather on spine) stamped in gilt on spine. Tiny wear at corners. Tightly bound. Clean. Scarce. near Fine condition..
Synopsis
First published in 1939, this is Charles H. Baker, Jr.'s infamous two volume set - an Exotic Cookery and an Exotic Drinking Book that serve as much a travel log to exotic places as it does a cookbook.
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- Cultural Connection
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020491
- Title
- The Gentleman's Companion - Volume 1 - An Exotic Cookery Book or Around the World with Knife, Fork and Spoon
- Author
- Baker, Charles H. Jr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Derrydale Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
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- Unopened
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Fine
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