Author: DAVID Elizabeth
Title: Italian Food. Drawings by Renato Guttuso. [First CBC Edition.] FIRST CBC EDITION IN FULL THEMED MOROCCO
Description: Macdonald for Cookery Book Club,, [1966]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 9 full-page illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in dark green full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt to a tureen motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. First CBC edition of David's third book and the last of the trilogy that changed the nature of English cookery forever. First published in 1954 with a revised second edition a year later, it presented an entirely novel world of taste, ingredients and cookery to a ration-oriented and culinary sombre Britain still in the aftermath of WWII.

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, elizabeth david, italian food, renato guttuso, cookery book club


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