| A Catalan Cookery Book Contributor(s): Davis, Irving (Author), Gray, Patience (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0907325920 ISBN-13: 9780907325925 Publisher: Prospect Books (UK) OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2002 Annotation: This book was privately published in 1969 after the author's death. It was edited and introduced by Patience Gray, who herself needs no introduction to Prospect readers. Echoes of Irving Davis, antiquarian bookseller, publisher and man of letters, abound in her own masterpiece Honey from a Weed. This book is a fragment - he was a man who sought perfection - and yet is complete enough for us to enjoy, and to cook from. He called his recipes 'impossible' because he despaired at substitution, or derogation from the original. 'Macaroni in the oven' calls for the blood of a chicken, other dishes are equally demanding. In the time since it was first written, authentic provisions and materials have become more available, the book less impossible. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Regional & Ethnic - Spanish |
| Dewey: 641.594 |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 8.18" W x 10.28" (1.00 lbs) 111 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: There are sixty recipes, from soups to sweets, taking in a summer and a winter drink along the way. There are also eleven fine engravings by the artist Nicole Fenosa, at whose home in Vendrell Irving Davis spent many summers. There are under a hundred recipes which are disarmingly simple yet make few concessions to the novice cook: this is not Delia Smith for the Mediterranean masses. There are eight main chapters covering soups; omelettes; pasta; snails; sea food; meat; salads and vegetables; and sweets. There is an appendix with some further documents about Irving Davis, including a few lines of his own on his life. The love affair of the English (and all northern Europeans) with the Mediterranean had especial piquancy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - before easy travel opened to us other regions of the sun. |