Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
The art of invigorating and prolonging life,: By food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, & c. and peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual ... is added, The pleasure of making a will
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The art of invigorating and prolonging life, by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, & c., or, The invalid's oracle: Containing peptic precepts, pointing ... is added, The pleasure of making a will
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
An Alphabet for Gourmets
This is one of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher's oldest books. For one thing, the word gourmet is no longer much used - it has an old-fashioned, dead-white-male ring to it; gourmets take themselves too seriously; and in any case the term was superseded twenty years ago by the self-mocking foodie. but the circumstances of the writing of the book was strange, even for someone whose life was as eventful as Mary Frances's. You can't help noticing that some of the recipes are - how shall we put it kindly, as it's meant? - less attractive than others. Nobody would now even consider making borscht with canned beets, or kidneys with tinned, sliced mushrooms or sauce Financiere, and milk toast is, for us twenty-first-century folk, a joke, not a food. But this little abecedary was written and published in 1949, only a few years after the end of the War. More than just a recipe book, this will delight and is prsented by The Folio Society nicely cased in a box slip cover.