An exceptional copy of this first edition of Elizabeth David's second book, still a core text and inspiration for any aspiring cook over seventy y...

A compendious and clearly written book of British recipes. The last knockings of Georgian life.First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's p...

Second edition of this influential cookbook, improved with revisions, in the original pictorial dustjacket.Second edition; 8vo(210 x 140 mm); illu...

Second edition of this influential cookbook, improved with revisions, in the original pictorial dustjacket.Second edition (revised and expanded); ...

A standard cookery and recipe book for the use of the British Raj in India. It opens with a forthright but fair minded section on servants, includ...

Recipes are listed by course, including soups, fish, meat, eggs, rice, curries, savoury dishes, as well as sambals (a chilli sauce or paste), chut...

An original example of a rare and early piece of commercial work produced by Bawden for at least two of the great Victorian hotels in Scarborough,...

The third edition of this famous guide to the vineyards and wines of Bordeaux, which remains the benchmark for Bordeaux wines today. The author cr...

A very good copy of this popular work on cookery and housekeeping by Elizabeth Raffald, which ran to multiple editions in her lifetime including a...

An important, early work comprising treatises on banquets, wine, gastronomy, games, painting and sculpture of the Greeks and Romans.First edition,...

A scarce work, chronicling the evolution and implementation of the humble spoon over millennia, on behalf of the presumably fictitious Society of ...

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, (1755-1826) was a French lawyer, politician and epicure who, with Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière...