James Beard's American Cookery; With illustrations by Earl Thollander
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 877 pages. 26 x 18.5 cm. Sample Copy - paper label on back free end paper: Sample, Return to Manufacturing Department, LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY. Published: May 1, 1972; Cloth: Arco B Grade AL 1370; Word Count: 300,000.
"Food and eating habits have fascinated me throughout my life, and after sixty-five years I have come to the conclusion that perhaps American Cookery is one of the most fascinating culinary subjects of all." - James Beard
One of the greatest authorities on food in America puts practically everything he has learned about cooking, including more than fifteen hundred of his favorite and most successful recipes (not counting additional hundreds of variations), into this magnificent volume. This book is to be read and savored as well as used, an epicurean journal that with delightful prose digs deep into the history of America to trace the origins and Americanization of our cooking. Interior clean and crisp. Boards lightly soiled. Dust wrapper creased with rubbed to edges. Covered in protective mylar. Mustard illustrated cloth covered boards. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. Item #5173
Price: $125.00