Cooks Tale, First Edition (5 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 315 pp.

Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Small closed tear on front panel top corner. ; 352 pages.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 315pp. Small octavo. Hardcover in publisher's boards. Numerous black and white illustrations and plates. Bookplate hidden under front flap of dustwrapper, faint spotting on top-edge of book. A near fine copy. First edition. In this volume, Lizzie Collingham presents the first authoritative history of Indian food, revealing that most well-known Indian dishes are the result of centuries of invasion and the fusion of diverse food traditions. She traces how Portuguese explorers and the Mughal empire introduced new ingredients and techniques from Central Asia, Persia, and Europe into Indian cooking. These influences shaped dishes like biryani, jalfrezi, and vindaloo. Even the word "curry" likely stems from a Portuguese mispronunciation of an Indian term. Collingham also follows the global journey of Indian cuisine, from London's curry houses to Japanese karee raisu, and New York's first kosher Indian restaurant, Madras Mahal. (Publisher's statement).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition of the author's first novel. Original jacket protected by mylar wrapping, but does show some earlier damage including foxing and tearing, particularly to top edge. Light foxing on preliminary pages, and previous seller's price is pencilled on ffep. pp. 216/8vo. Please note that, depending on destination, we may request a payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. Abe2549. This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce copy of Elisabeth Ayrton's first novel, 'The Cook's Tale', complete with the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work.With the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.This novel, set in France, centres around the dilemma of Gabrielle, who must decide if she will give up her family's hotel which she has spent her life building up, or her lover. Through this, she tells her younger sister stories about some of the remarkable members of their famously culinarian family.The first novel of Elisabeth Ayrton, a British writer who, amongst her well-known cookbooks, went on to write three more novels and and an archaeological work. She was married to British artist and novelist, Michael Ayrton. In the original cloth binding. With the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, with fading to the spine, mostly to the head and tail. With minor bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is lightly sunned, with minor loss to the spine head and tail. Small closed tear to the head and with a couple spots and handling marks to the rear, however overall very pleasing. Internally, firmly bound. With offsetting to the endpapers and a couple spots to the fore edge, otherwise bright and clean. Ownership bookplate of ones Martin and Pamela Finch tipped-in to the front free endpaper. Very Good Indeed. book.