The home orchard cookery book by Gilian Painter - 1977

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Corner clipped dustjacket, now wrapped in protective sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977. Line illustrations throughout (mainly reproduced from early herbals), pp 315, a good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fishy" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis, his wife asked him to look for a cookbook on fish because she did not recognize any of the local varieties. Not being able to find one he wrote one himself. The original manuscript was copied with a stencil machine. A copy reached the British cooking guru Elizabeth David, who passed it on to Penguin… Read More