Spotlight On Lucullus A Miniature Anthology On The Pleasures Of The Table

CROMBIE, Max. (ed.)

Verlag: Knights Press Ltd, 1946

Beschreibung

CROMBIE, Max. (ed.) c1946 [23] pp. Knights Press Ltd 7 3/8" x 4 1/2" Decorations by William Littlewood Stapled wraps Baked Elephant s Foot. Just one of the exotic dishes that features in Spotlight on Lucullus, A miniature Anthology of the pleasures of the Table which is twenty-eighth in the series of minithologies created by a certain Max Crombie, some of the others being devoted to bird poetry, Christmas, love lyrics, the prose of Richard Jefferies, drink songs and the four seasons. Originating from the modest Knights Press in Northwood, Middlesex, from c 1940 to 1942, these booklets were slightly smaller than Penguin paperbacks and certainly shorter, being, in most cases, no more than twenty four pages in length. Well known book illustrators provided the decorations in the form of vignettes. The subject matter covered was presumably chosen to lift wartime spirits ( though the irony of describing banquets at a time of wartime shortages was doubtless not lost on many readers,) and perhaps to inject a little nationalist pride into a demoralised populace. As for the account of the baked elephant s foot, it was supplied by the French gastronome Le Vaillant, who witnessed the culinary practices of the Hottentots while travelling through Africa. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 28804

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Titel: Spotlight On Lucullus A Miniature Anthology ...

Verlag: Knights Press Ltd

Erscheinungsdatum: 1946

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good

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