Author: DAVID Elizabeth
Title: A Book of Mediterranean Food. Line Drawings by John Minton. [Recipes from Provence, Greece, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Syria, Egypt and North Africa]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Dorling Kindersley,, [1988]. 4to., with coloured frontispiece, coloured plates and numerous illustrations in the text, blank label on front free endpaper; red pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in white, red endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Lavishly illustrated reissue of the author's first book, with Minton's original illustrations augmented by well-chosen plates by Old and Modern Masters. David contributes a new introduction written expressly for this edition; in it she provides a fascinating and hard-hitting account of her publishing history. The introduction to the original edition of 1950 is preserved. A well-produced and respectful version of one of the first of the author's three cookery books that changed English cooking forever. NIOW SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.

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