The Esquire Culinary Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery Book Or, Around Europe with Knife, Fork, and Spoon.

BAKER, Charles H.

$300.00

Item Number: 127386

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1959.

First edition of Baker’s famed Esquire Culinary Companion. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Charles H. Baker Jr.” Near fine in the original slipcase which is in very good condition.

Published on the twentieth anniversary of Baker's masterpiece, Gentleman's Companion, The Esquire Culinary Companion brings together a fine selection of recipes compiled by the author on a whirlwind trip through Europe including 'Interesting Italian Eatables', 'Succulent Spanish Selections', 'Samplings from the Swiss Chefs', and 'Bright Belgian Bouchees'. He states in his foreword: "This volume marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of our Madness, the pleasant madness of collecting recipes. It marks also the twentieth anniversary of the publication of our Gentleman's Companion, a work containing the 700 greatest masterpieces of food and liquid. Since the noble time many roasts have passed through ovens, many chefs have busied themselves in their kitchens, and many artists in food have engaged in devious experiments to find new delights for the connoisseur. And so now - high time - there are enough new masterpiece recipes to reveal (not to mention some old ones that somehow previously escaped the attention of this reporter) to make a book's worth."