"GREAT PASTA": INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JAMES BEARD, BEARD ON PASTA
BEARD, James. Beard on Pasta. New York: Alfred D. Knopf, 1983. Quarto, original pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket.
First edition of James Beard's tribute to America's vibrant culinary diversity, boldly inscribed and signed on the title page, "Great Pasta, Shirley, James Beard."
To the legendary James Beard: ''Food is American because it's created here… It has roots from everywhere.'' He wrote Beard on Pasta especially "for American cooks who are used to dabbling in the cuisine of every culture. He wrote it because he wanted people to realize that pasta is not just Italian. 'It's Chinese, Bulgarian, Italian and Central Asian and it's American'" (New York Times). "First Edition" on copyright page. With illustrations by Karl W. Stuecklen.
A fine inscribed copy.