The International Cook Book; Over 3,300 Recipes gathered from all over the World...
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. Hardcover. 1059 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. A cookbook worth utilizing - and someone did! This particular copy has four handwritten recipes laid in as well as recipes written on the front and back of both covers. This cook book brings together the cooking of a former Delmonico's chef, the demands of transatlantic passenger dining, and recipes gathered during international travel. After leaving Delmonico's and an unsuccessful venture with his own restaurant, Filippini became a traveling culinary inspector for the shipping organization that became the International Mercantile Marine. Filippini undertook a journey that included Japan, China, the Philippines, Singapore, India, Egypt, and numerous European countries. The cookbook, arranged as breakfast, luncheon, and dinner menus for every day of the year, draws on the authors extensive travel. A well-used cookbook... the best kind! Heavily rubbed, with stains. Color illustrated cloth covered boards. Good. Item #5159
Price: $50.00