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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> There on a shelf in my study a room filled with giant photographs of food-rip- ened figs in a bowl peas in a pod and a Damien Hirst-style “shark in jelly”–the books added intellectual and historical weight to what I already had. There were cookery books sent to me by publishers and PRs over the years hoping for coverage in the food magazine I edit autobiographies penned by famous chefs I know and the odd food tome that I had actually paid for. I started leafing through the old books I had bought slightly wondering if while they certainly gave character to the shelf they would be as dry to read as they looked from their tired bindings and browned paper. But I was quickly struck by the char- acterful writing that leapt from so many of the pages. Where I had expected placid cooking instruction I found verbose opinion. Entries in the nineteenth-century Cas sell’s Dictionary of Cookery for instance were filled with radical opinion and comment.