Gastronomy 2021 Catalogue

32 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 “Not Only Treated Of Delicacies, But Also Gave Instructions In Economical Housekeeping” 35. KITCHINER, William. The Cook’s Oracle: Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families. London, 1821. Small octavo, 20th- century three-quarter black morocco gilt. $800. Click for more info Third edition—“which is almost entirely re-written”—of Dr. Kitchiner’s classic and practical exhortation to “masticate, denticate, chump, grind and swallow!” “Convinced that the healthdepends to a great extent on the proper preparation of the food, [Dr. William Kitchiner] experimented in cookery in his own house… [and] soon attained to a considerable culinary skill. His lunches, to which only a few were admitted, were far famed. His dinners were conducted with much ceremony, and no guest was admitted after the hour fixed… His gastronomic experience he embodied in a work entitled Apicius Redivivus, or the Cook’s Oracle [1817], which not only treated of delicacies, but also gave instructions in economical housekeeping” (DNB). Bound with several blank leaves at rear, presumably for owner notes, with one penciled annotation on first leaf. A handsomely bound, clean copy in excellent condition.