Author: POTTER, MARGARET YARDLEY
Title: At Home on the Range Or, How to Make Friends with Your Stove
Description: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4"; 214 pages; Hard cover is blue with black lettering on spine. Light rubbing, bumping, sunning to boards. DJ has shelf wear, rubbing, scuffing, sunning, edge wear; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight . No sticky finger prints or mystery food glops. ' a book far ahead of its time. Part scholar and part crusader for a more open food conversation, Potter espoused the importance of farmer’s markets and ethnic food (Italian, Jewish, and German) , derided preservatives and culinary shortcuts, and generally celebrated a devotion to epicurean adventures. Reading this practical and humorous cookbook, it’s not hard to see that Gilbert inherited her great-grandmother’s love of food and her warm, infectious prose. ' Index.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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