Edith Fulcher (3 results)

Original cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Slight foxing to edges. Slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners. ; Edith Fulcher's What Shall We Eat? (1925) is a lively interwar cookery and household manual aimed at the thrifty English housewife. It offers straightforward recipes, clear menu plans, and practical advice on balancing nourishment with economy. Fulcher stresses seasonal produce, avoiding waste, and using leftovers intelligently, capturing the atmosphere of post-war austerity without sacrificing comfort. Her tone is brisk, reassuring, and firmly practical, making the book both a revealing document of domestic life between the wars and a still-usable guide for anyone interested in historical foodways and traditional English family cookery. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 352 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). A very scarce copy of this American-inspired cookery book by Edith Fulcher, adapted for English kitchens. The second edition of this work. First published in 1925 under the title 'What shall we eat?'.Published for Thornton Butterworth's 'Home Management' series.Very scarce to find copies across all editions for this work.In the original cloth binding.This volume, compiled by one Edith Fulcher, offers a range of recipes inspired by American cuisine, including hamburger steak, waffles, corn bread, peach cobbler and more. Of course, recipes have been adapted to appease the English taste of the time. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities and small marks to the boards. Fading and a couple brown spots to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting and a few spots to the endpapers and to pages 250-251. Ownership bookplate to the front free endpaper. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First UK Edition Thus. Originally published in 1925 under the title 'What Shall We Eat'. Publisher's blue boards with black lettering to the spine with author, title and publisher's logo blind-stamped to the front board. A VG+ copy (a neat, tiny name in ink to the front free end-paper in a fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. From a British Library blog from 2018: "In 1928, Edith Fulcher published American Cooking for English Homes, a recipe book 'sent into the world as a home missionary to fill a long-felt want': to modernise British cooking. The cookbook aimed to provide simple and economical recipes, bringing American recipes to English households. Fulcher advises housewives tired of cooking the same thing every day to explore the cookery of other nations for inspiration and for money saving tips. In her preface, Fulcher argues that America's cuisine is varied and cosmopolitan thanks to its immigrant population, and describes the growing importance of vegetables in the modern American diet: 'The modern tendency is toward lighter meals and a vegetable diet, substituting salads, eggs and vegetables for meat. It is certainly more economical and a pleasant change from the once ubiquitous hot joint'". The book contains a wonderful recipe for Banana Salad Sandwiches. An important cookery book in outstanding condition. Photographs/scans available upon request.