Sell The Centaur’s Kitchen by Patience Gray (Hardback) best price

This is a preloved slightly used book. All pages are intact. No folded and missing pages. The book cover is tanned (inside - front and back)and has some creases. With minimal edge tanning on pages. However, all pages remain bright and clear. The book is in very good condition. It is a cookbook that includes French, Italian, and Catalan dishes. In a few short chapters, Patience Gray lays out a whole repertoire, drawn mainly from the Mediterranean and France, that might be cooked on board ships. Her aim was to wean the cooks off frozen, dried and packeted food and to respond to both the seasons and the supplies available at ports of call. The style of cookery was much as in her earlier, and first, book Plats du Jour (1957): retro to us, bourgeois French in another form of shorthand. The style of writing is eloquent and prescriptive: the author keen to impart good habits as well as good cooking. Thus there are chapters about equipment and kitchen basics as well as mere recipes. (Ebay)