Some Favorite Southern Recipes of the Duchess of Windsor

The Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Windsor

Verlag: Gramercy Publishing, New York, 1942

Beschreibung

merican expatriate Wallis Warfield Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, wrote a cookbook in 1942 entitled Some Favorite Southern Recipes of the Duchess of Windsor. sharing her 140 recipes to raise money for the British War Relief Society. Whether or not the Duchess could cook remains a question as the book was copyrighted by campaigning food journalist Marie M. Meloney and friend of first lady Eleanor Rooseveldt who wrote the forward. She was certainly known as a hostess in her hometown of Baltimore. In her introduction she wrote: "It is the simple dishes of my homeland which are the most popular… and which are the ones most frequently served at my table." We would probably nor consider her recipe for Terrapin simple, as it starts with 2 live terrapin, which must be cooked in boiling water, shells removed as well as toenails! Unfortunately this is not a first from Scribner's, but a 1960's era reprint from Gramercy, at that time a subsidiary of Crown Publishing. ( A signed first has an asking price of $900) It is confusing that the only date given is 1942, leading the reader to belive it was a very early reprint, but Gramercy lists its address with a ZIP code, not in use until 1963. Still, it is an interesting and uncommon book and this is a nice copy, clean and unmarked - no terrapin gravy stains! The DJ has wear, some small tears and scuffing and the spine is a little sunned. ; ly; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 180 pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17430

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Some Favorite Southern Recipes of the ...

Verlag: Gramercy Publishing, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1942

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: First Edition; First Printing.