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Menus Made Easy: How to Order Dinner and Give the Dishes Their French Names
by Lake, Nancy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Prescott, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Frederick Warne. Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Decorative Cloth. 234 pp. 17th edition. Brown boards. Black and gilt lettering. Drawings of a menu, golden hung pheasant, and steaming boar's head on front. Corners, spine ends worn. Edges rubbed. Ink scribbles on title page. Ink spot on rear endpapers. This is not a recipe book, but one of terminology, intended for the lady of the household to enable her to properly make out French menus, and to order a variety of dishes from their cooks. There is a brief description of each dish to allow her mistress to recognize them.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Riverwash Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- COOK0040
- Title
- Menus Made Easy: How to Order Dinner and Give the Dishes Their French Names
- Author
- Lake, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- Menu, French, Cooking
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cooking;
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Riverwash Books
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Prescott, Ontario
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