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  • Indian Domestic Economy and Receipt Book;

    [RIDDELL, Robert Flower].
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    Early curry recipes. The rare first edition of this fascinating cookbook and domestic guide, designed for 'Families and single individuals, residin...

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  • French Country Cooking.

    DAVID, Elizabeth; MINTON, John (illustrator).
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    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...

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  • The Savoy Cocktail Book.

    CRADDOCK, Harry.
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    The height of 1930s style and sophistication. An Art Deco classic, here in very good condition with stunning illustrations. Scores of cocktails rec...

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  • Pot-luck.

    [COOKERY BOOK] May Byron (editor)
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    A compendious an clearly written book of British recipes. The last knockings of Georgian life.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's pi...

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  • French Country Cooking.

    DAVID, Elizabeth.
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    A rare survival with the dust-jacket and in above average condition. Elizabeth David (1913-1992) was the leading cookery book writer of her genera...

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  • A Book of Mediterranean Food.

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

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  • Good Sweets.

    HEATH, Ambrose; BAWDEN, Edward (illustator).
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    One of a series of such books by Heath to be illustrated by Bawden. Not common in the dust jacket. First edition, first impression, with i...

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  • Indian Domestic Economy and Receipt Book.

    RIDDELL, R.
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    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...

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  • The Madras Cookery Book for the People.

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

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  • Action Cook Book.

    DEIGHTON, Len.
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    Inscribed by the author. Signed by Deighton on the title page, 'best wishes Len Deighton'. One of three cook books published by the versatile autho...

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  • Wine List. Royal Hotel, Scarborough.

    BAWDEN, Edward.
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    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,...

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  • Bordeaux et ses Vins Classés par Ordre de Merite.

    COCKS, Ch.; FÉRET, Édouard.
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    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...

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  • The Bell Inn Recipe Book

    MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK
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    A notebook beginning Feb. 8th 1840 for the Bell Inn. The first five pages detail materials to be used at the Bell Inn, possibly for conversion, an...

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  • The Experienced English Housekeeper,

    RAFFALD, Elizabeth.
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    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...

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  • De Conviviis Libri Quatuor.

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

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  • The Spoon:

    WESTMAN, Habbakuk O. [pseud. ?EWBANK, Thomas]
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    A scarce work, chronicling the evolution and implementation of the humble spoon over millennia, on behalf of the presumably fictitious Society of ...

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  • Physiologie du Gout...

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

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