A large and important work on the history and culture of sugar
Featuring in-depth profiles
this book is lavish with food and location photographs
Stain to fore-edges
ancestral stories and a wide range of accessible techniques to bring you the most comprehensive guide to Creole cooking
Urbain-Dubois. The Household Cookery-Book: Practical and Elementary Methods gourmet A large and important work544 pp. Illuis. throughout with steel engravings. 8. 25x5. 5", bevelled green cloth, gilt lettered spine. Second Edition, enlarged. London: Longmans, Green, 1873. A remarkable book for European chefs in the Victorian era, translated from French in English. Methods for creating sauces, carving meat, butchering fish, making game soups, and forming fancy pastries. Mild shelf wear, otherwise a very good copy of this classic work. (Mantle behind counter)