Title: A Gourmet's Book of Beasts: Intriguing Recipes for 57 Different Meats- With a Natural History of Each Animal, Its Portrait from the World's Finest Art Collections, and Its Culinary Bibliography
Publisher: Paul S. Eriksson
Publication Date: 1975
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0839730519
ISBN 13: 9780839730514
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 1.95 pounds

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An unusual 173 page cookbook. For each of the 57 animals in this cookbook there is a Latin name, a natural history, an evolution of the meat, a recipe and a culinary bibliography. Each animal is illustrated with a portrait of a food vessel in the form of or decorated with that animal, or with a hunting or feasting scene of the Beasts. Some the gourmet recipes include Aardvark: Game Sausage, Armadillo Golden, Beaver & Beans, Buffalo Tongue in Aspic, Crab Rolls, Frog Legs, Elk Steak, Grasshoppers Riley, Opossum with Sweet Potato Rolls, Raccoons stuffed, Rattlesnake, Shark Fin Soup, Turtle Gumbo and many many other fine and unusual recipes including Whale, Mountain Lion, Elephant, Camel, Octopus to name a few.

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