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A Catalan Cookery Book
The author of A Catalan Cookery Book was Irving Davis, a connaisseur of priceless manuscripts and early printed books, a gourmet and a renowned cook.
An incomplete manuscript recovered after his death, it was edited by his friend Patience Gray, author of Honey from a Wee... -
Honey from a Weed
Winner of a special special award by the André Simon Book Prize committee in 1987
This book is perhaps the jewel in the Prospect Books' crown. Within a few months of its first appearance in 1986 it was hailed as a modern classic. Fiona MacCarthy wrote in The Times t... -
The Centaur's Kitchen
The Centaur's Kitchen is a wonderfully evocative cookery manual by one of England’s greatest modern food-writers. It was written in 1964, at the request of the Blue Funnel Line shipping company chairman, to better instruct their Chinese cooks in cooking fresh and flavoursome food. In a f...