DAVID, Elizabeth; Renato GUTTUSO (illustrator). Italian Food. London: Macdonald and Co. 1965.
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 30s to front flap; pp. 362, [2 (blank)], illustrated frontispiece, a few black and white full-page illustrations; closed tear to front of jacket (c. 10mm), slight wear to jacket edges with a little chipping to spine, a little shelf wear, a little fading to cloth to crown and base of spine, very minor spotting to edges of textblock; very good.
Second, revised edition of David’s celebrated introduction to Italian cuisine, a work that helped transform the post-war British palate.
Elizabeth David (1913-1992) was a British cookery writer, and she was passionate about revitalising home cooking in the mid-twentieth century. Italian Food ‘is no mere collection of “tourist dishes”, but a genuine exploration of Italian cuisine.’ (blurb) Evelyn Waugh even said in the Sunday Times it was one of two books that had afforded him the most pleasure in 1954, when it was first published.
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