Elizabeth David Classics with an Introduction by James Beard
Elizabeth David Classics with an Introduction by James Beard is a 244-page hardcover published by Alfred A. Knopf. This copy published in 1980. The dust jacket shows shelf wear and closed tears along the spine. Inside, the fly-leaf is inscribed in pen but otherwise the book is clean and crisp. Book Summary Here, together in one volume, are three early classics of cookery from England's most famous food writer, who has inspired and influenced a whole generation of cooks. Elizabeth David, as James Bear points out in his foreword, "was a leader, ahead of her time" who "shook her readers out of their culinary rut, challenging them to explore a different world of food." Today some of the foods that she introduced to the Anglo-Saxon world have become household words, like gazpacho and pesto, but Mrs. David was the first to discover these treasures and to transport them to her native ground--and her recipes are still the best. ISBN: