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In France, where superb cuisine is the rule rather than the exception, everyday cooking - la cuisine bourgeoise - is, on a less expensive, less elaborate scale, as delicate an art as la haute cuisine - the trademark of the world's finest French restaurants. In perfecting this art, French cooks have been guided by the expert culinary advice and recipes of one of the outstanding chefs and cookery teachers of all times - Henri-Paul Pellaprat. Now this great work is available in America.
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Jacket title: Cooking by the garden calendar : a book for gardeners who like to cook, and for good cooks who like to garden.
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Every recipe includes an easy-to-use chart that shows you how to vary ingredients to suit your needs and tastes. There are more than 19,000 recipe combinations in the book. The key to making these recipes so flexible is the magic of canned soup.
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"Charming, droll, whimsical, amusing and elegantly written. An unusual (and early) book in English about Chinese food. The first nine chapters are musings on Chinese foods and dining habits. The 101 recipes (from Chapter 10 onwards) are littered with proverbs, observations and asides and interspersed with the author's illustrations and caricatures. The recipes are written longhand. Many are guidelines and lack measurements or quantities, but in most cases are useful to a sensible cook. There are useful chapters on ingredients including pricing and a glossary as well as guides on where to shop and eat (US locations in this edition, British locations in the UK edition). There are also many observations, astute or amusing, and sometimes both on Chinese gastronomy and culture"--From bookseller's description (Books for Cooks.)
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Manuscripts
Bound volume of English manuscript recipes, both for cooking and medicine, written beginning in the 17th century (in several hands). Some of the recipes are attributed to a specific person (both women and men) with a note if it was tested; in some cases, the name of the person who tested it is also provided. The manuscript is organized into four sections: medicine, recipes coming from Lady Bray, distillation, and cookery. There are four loose items in the inside front cover. About half of the volume is blank. Bound in vellum.
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"This cook book is a compilation of favorite recipes of members of the Garden Club of Virginia. Each of the officers of the Club and each of its former presidents was invited to contribute one recipe; each of the member clubs was requested to furnish three from among its membership."
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