Search Results: Cookbooks from Berthoff Books

Random House, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 256 pages, with index, bibliography, table of centigrade to Fahrenheit temperature conversions. More than a cookbook, the book has several-page historical introductions to each chapter (e.g., "Antipasti", "Fish and Shellfish", "Breads", etc.), as well as comments with each recipe. Illustrated throughout in color with photos of the food and reproductions of Italian art. Quarto (~10" x 13.5"), color-printed boards (same images as on DJ), end papers color-printed with Giovanna Garzoni still life, glossy stock for pages, wear to corners, unmarked. DJ is price-clipped, tears and rubbing to edges including a 3" tear (mended with tape) and creases to back panel at bottom. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.

Homestead Publishing, 2003. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 268 pages, with index. Revised edition of Star Food, first published 1981. "Choice recipes from two Danish chefs and their award-winning restaurants favored by Hollywood's great - circa 1928 to 1989; [the author's father] Carl Andersen's Chatam in Westwood Village and Kenneth Hansen's Scandia of Hollywood." Line Drawings by Kim E. Burroughs. Recipes interspersed with reminiscences and other text. Trade paperback, wraps a very little bit curled, minor shelf wear, light soil to edges. Inscribed by author on half-title to Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, who underscored one word in the front matter; otherwise unmarked.