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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. 1937 edition. Please use photographs to ascertain condition.

About the book >.>.> EVEN when I was a child forty years ago the smaller country house had not yet been entirely divested of its domestic splendour. Food and service were cheap and there was a lavishness about country life which was very different from the present time. The intervening years have changed all that. To-day the country housewife is no longer at an advantage when compared with her counterpart in the towns and cities. As a result of the development of transport and cold storage it is the same goods that she buys only she finds it rather more difficult to buy them. She no longer makes her own bread and butter and home- made butter is difficult to get and then inordinately expensive. Instead of half an hour spent shopping almost round the corner and tradespeople delivering all day long she has to motor to the nearest town which means a morning’s work and then must bring her purchases home herself or leave them for the local carrier. And she will find that her choice is often severely limited especially in those shops such as the fishmonger where perishable goods are only stocked regularly when there is a constant demand. Without some ingenuity therefore she may find that the scope of her culinary repertoire is somewhat circumscribed. (SP)