Gastronomy 2021 Catalogue

31 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s G a s t r o n o m y 2 0 2 1 “Come Next Summer!” 34. KENT, Louise Andrews and GAY, Elizabeth Kent. The Summer Kitchen (Mrs. Appleyard’s, Of Course). Boston, 1957. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $500. Click for more info First edition, association copy, of this narrative cookbook bringing back New England staple Mrs. Appleyard, inscribed to Julia Child’s friend and kitchen colleague Avis DeVoto: “Come next summer! Avis. Louise Andrews Kent. April 1962.” Mrs. Appleyard spoke to New England sensibilities and her wit and kindness became a fixture in the region’s kitchens, both through the narrative cookbooks and through a long- running feature in Vermont Life magazine. The inscribee of this copy, Avis MacVicar DeVoto, was a prominent cookbook editor at Knopf, a longtime resident of Cambridge, and one of Julia Child’s closest friends. In fact, it was DeVoto who painstakingly edited Mastering the Art of French Cooking . Occasional pencil “X”s. Book with only mild toning to spine, dust jacket with light wear mainly to extremities and unobtrusive slit to spine. A near-fine copy with an outstanding inscription and association.