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The Centaur's Kitchen: A Book of French, Greek and Catalan Dishes for Ships' Cooks in the Blue Funnel Line
by Patience Gray, with illustratons by Miranda Gray
Patience Gray's Honey from a Weed is a modern classic of the kitchen. Her Plats du Jour, published in 1957 by Penguin Books, was an important step in the re-education of British cooks after the Second World War. The book here published is the text of a full set of instructions which she provided in 1964 at the behest of the proprietors for the cooks of the Blue Funnel Line, an important Liverpool shipping line working mostly in ...
Paperback. Price US$19.95
Hardback. Price US$50.00
Early French Cookery
by Eleanor and Terence Scully
Describes the food prepared for wealthy French households at the end of the Middle Ages, with over 100 recipes and instructions for preparing them. 330p (Michigan UP 1996)
Paperback. Price US$26.95
Hardback. Price US$34.50
La Varenne's Cookery: The French Cook; The French Pastry Chef; The French Confectioner
by Francois Pierre de la Varenne, translated and with a commentary by Terence Scully
These three books by Francois Pierre de la Varenne (c. 1615-1678), who was chef to the Marquis d'Uxelles, are the most important French cookery books of the seventeenth century. They were the first French cookery books of any substance since Le Viandier almost 300 years before, and they ran to thirty editions in 75 years. The reason for the success was simple: these were the first books to record and embody the immense advance which French ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00
The French Cook
Francois Pierre La Varenne
Published in 1651, this revolutionary recipe book represents a move away from peasant traditions, and lays the foundations of classic French cuisine. La Varenne's was the first recipe book to receive international acclaim, and influenced European cookery for many centuries to come. Little is known of La Varenne's life, or if he was responsible for the considerable innovations that appear in his books, but he was certainly the first to write them ...
Hardback. Price US$39.95
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