Cooking Without Recipes

New York, New York: Harper & Row Publishers. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. 273 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 1.8: KB#002202: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Jacket has several small cuts and some well-repaired cuts along the edges. "A complete cooking course designed to change beginners and recipe-followers into creative cooks, including 300 recipe patterns and exciting variations." The fabulous M. F. K. Fisher wrote of Helen Worth's classic Cooking Without Recipes, "I have given many copies of [your] book. " She added, "I can list such gifts on one hand. " The book provides an understanding of cooking itself, rather than rote learning of recipes, and is based on the Helen Worth Cooking School teaching method. It emphasizes time- and money-saving methods and decries non-essential fuss. The book exemplifies the way her thousands of world-wide cooking-school graduates learned to enjoy their kitchens. In addition, Cooking Without Recipes contains numerous excellent recipes. "Medley with Melons" provides an attractive way to serve a summer cooler. "Mary's Lemon Custard Rice" adds pleasure to chicken for dinner. And "Aunt Annie's Fish with Lemon Sauce" honors the splendid cooking of a beloved family member. Included among her men and women graduates are ambassadors--Clare Boothe Luce and Pamela Harriman, royalty--the Duchess of Talleyrand, and television personalities--Betty Furness and Betsy Palmer. They knew they had to be well-informed themselves to be able to direct their cooks. " Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. .