Floris, Maria.

Cooking for Love.

London: Putnam, 1959.

Octavo, 217 pages. First edition. A memoir and serious cookbook combined, from this Hungarian emigre. The recipes are combined with the memoir in an attractive narrative form. The recipes are interesting and include Goose Risotto, Grouse Bacchus, Crab Dumplings, and Malakoff Pudding and much more. A bit of foxing to text block edges and less so to the endpapers. otherwise near very good in publisher's burgundy cloth. In a near fine dust jacket.

Here's a cookbook author I can get behind. Before starting the books, she did some research, using as her maxim, Somerset Maugham. "Once I was told by one of S.M's friends that M. read ten thousand words for each one he wrote. I resolved to take his example to heart."

Price: $40.00