Arabella Boxer; Various
First Slice Your Cook-Book: The Three Tier Menu Guide; a Second Slice: A Three-Tier Cookery Anthology
London; Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1964-1966. First edition. Cloth. A lovely two-volume first edition set of these inventive and stylish cookbooks, designed to help cooks create an extensive array of thoughtfully balanced and original menus, each housed in its original slipcase In the publisher's original cloth binding with pictorial pattern cloth boards.This is a lovely set of two cookbooks from Arabella Boxer, The set consists of the following: First Slice Your Cookbook: The Three Tier Menu Guide, published in 1964. This innovative recipe book is spiral‑bound in horÂizontal tiers labeled "Soups & Hors d"oeuvre," "Main Dishes," and "Sweets & Savouries," allowing you to mix and match courses to create a full meal. These tiers are also colour coded, ensuring a balanced meal, with red, meaning rich, blue, meaning simple, grey, inbetween, and olive, meaning filling.A Second Slice: A Three‑Tier Cookery Anthology, published in 1966. This edition continues the mix‑and‑match spiral-bound format, featuring dishes from famed food writers including Alexis Soyer, Dorothy Hartley, Ambrose Heath, and many more. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to spines, with slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Bookplate from "Martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique" to front free endpaper of the second volume. Slipcases, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight cracking to the slipcase of volume 1, with rubbing and bumping causing slight loss to extremities, and loss to paper to underside of slipcase. Internally, firmly bound. The odd handling mark and one or two spots in volume 1. Pages very bright and clean otherwise. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Alan Cracknell; Various. Very Good Indeed .

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Keywords: Cooking Menu Recipes Arabella Boxer Menu Thomas Nelson Slipcase Alan Cracknell; Various