Description and condition:

Paper boards hardback with black cloth spine, dustcover, 8vo, 278 pp., decorated EPs, index, select bibliography, b/w illustrations.

Very good, has inscription on FFEP, else with nice bright clean pages. In worn dustcover with loss and dust-staining, now protected.

Contents:

'Starting with the Roman conquest, Philippa Pullar charts the evolution of English arts of cooking and traditions of entertaining up to the present (1971). She has unearthed writings of contemporary diarists, housewives, chefs, poets, essayists, and wits, and uses them throughout the book, so that we move through the kitchens of Rome with Vitelius and Peonius and through the Anglo-Sazon cloisters with Bede; we sup with Doctor Johnson, attend Lord Mayor's Banquets with rank Harris, and eat sows' udders with Lytton Strachery.'