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Cook-Book Note-Book. Cook-Book Note-Book. Cook-Book Note-Book. Cook-Book Note-Book.

JOICEY, Magda, ed. Cook-Book Note-Book. With notes by Angela Carter. With drawings by Edward Bawden. FIRST EDITION, first impression. Westhouse. 1946
Half title, illus. Orig. cream cloth, pictorially blocked in red. Buff pictorial d.w., unclipped; sl. darkened, small closed tear at head, evidence of label removal to front panel, wear to rear panel.

¶Scarce in dustwrapper. The 'result of many years' eating experience on the Continent and in America! Some of the recipes are designed to tickle the most jaded palate, some are fit for gourmets but all are superbly simple to make'. While a number of the recipes are basic (boiled rice) or bewildering (egg and spinach jellies), the Torhonya (Hungarian noodle recipe) is making this cataloguer yearn for lunchtime. The jacket boasts that the dishes are 'superbly simple to make... whether you want to give a ravenous family a quick and filling supper or whether you are planning dinner for a special occasion'. Assurances of a recipe's simplicity are commonplace now, but here seem to be an early and welcome recognition that women's lives are extremely busy, and that intricate suppers are not always possible. Equally ahead of the game are Bawden's illustrations, which deal with the (very current obession with) origins of ingredients. His illustration for the 'Sweets' chapter, where a frilly-cuffed white hand reaches over the head of a Black worker cutting sugarcane, feels particularly subversive.
Stock #89807
£150


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