Author: Costa, Margaret
Title: Four Seasons Cookery Book
Publisher: Cookery Book Club
Place: London
Date: (1970)
Edition: book club
Pages: 360
Binding: Hardback
Condition: VERY GOOD inscribed by author in very lightly edge-worn dj
Illustrator: John Tribe
Book Id: MAIN002534I
Details: Index
. . to bring back to the kitchen the cycle of the seasons: the strawberries of summer, the mushrooms from the autumn fields, the glories of Christmas cooking and the joys of the long awaited spring.
This book is the result of twenty years of eating and writing about food and cooking, and of some forty years of uninterrupted cooking Margaret Costa bribed her mother to let her learn when she was only six.
This book is written for people who really care about keeping a good table, about using fresh foods in season, about feeding their families well with food that is carefully bought and carefully cooked about never over-elaborate or time-consuming and about entertaining their friends with a light heart.
The beginner will find sound recipes and carefully explained methods, and the experienced cook a treasury of imaginative ideas. Town-dwellers who dream of a country kitchen and those who live in the country and have too much rhubarb or asparagus, or are tired of eating their own apples and winter vegetables, will want it most of all.
Margaret Costa is Wine and Food Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine and contributes two weekly columns to the Illustrated London News on dining out and eating in. She is also Food Consultant to Marks and Spencer.
The paintings on the front and back cover are from the series The Four Seasons by Jodocus de Momper (1610) and show 'Summer' and 'Winter'.
They are reproduced by kind permission of Athena Reproductions, 76 Southampton Row, London WC1