Davidson alan eaton (7 Ergebnisse)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1988). 1988 1st edition. Large 8vo (170 x 248mm). Pp328. Colour illustrations by Susan Alcantarilla. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy in slightly used dust-wrapper. An excellent anthology of food writing. . Illus. By Susan Alcantarilla (illustrator).…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1979). (1979) Later reprint of 1980 edition. 8vo paperback (138 x 215mm). Pp512. B&w illustrations. Slightly rubbed - a good copy only. I have about twenty good books on fish and shellfish cookery. After Jane Grigson's 'Fish cookery', this is the most used of them. Davidson was a career diplomat who joined the Foreign Office after wartime service in the RNVR. Much of his writing explores the cuisine of the places he worked in. His first published book (with Giorgio Bini), Mediterranean Seafood, began life as the privately issued Seafood of Tunisia and the Central Mediterranean, written for his wife while living in Tunis. Davidson also had a spell as ambassador to Laos. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1990). 1990 1st US edition. 8vo (145 x 215mm). Ppxiv,274. B/w vignette illustrations. Maroon cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slightly bumped else very good in slightly bumped dust-wrapper. Forty-nine articles on food of the best sort, written with "erudition and charm [by] one of Britain's most discerning and authoritative writers on food". Includes the "Giant Gooseberry Competition of Yorkshire, gigantic fish [and] miniature vegetables". Davidson was a career diplomat who joined the Foreign Office after wartime service in the RNVR. Much of his writing explores the cuisine of the places he worked in. His first published book (with Giorgio Bini), Mediterranean Seafood, began life as the privately issued Seafood of Tunisia and the Central Mediterranean, written for his wife while living in Tunis. Davidson also had a spell as ambassador to Laos. Chapters are grouped into the following sections: A personal miscellany; Food science; The good things of life (ingredients); History (British cookery); Seafood - the giant of the Mekong, not yogurt with fish, fish liver in Shetland, sandals from the sea, a fishy tour round the North Sea, seafood through a fish-eye lens, fish in the Bosphorous, the harlot of Marseilles; Asia - the traditions of Laos, more bell-flower root please, plum meal, taking coffee seriously, the size of things to come, hallo halo-halo, sticky fingers, three meals in Phuket, Vietnamense food, the fish sauces of Vietnam and south-east Asia, European eels in Japan; Cheese - British cheeses a historical introduction, the hard cheeses of England, soft cheeses revived, the noble blues, Welsh and Scottish cheeses; Tailpiece, a kipper with my tea. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1979). (1979) Later reprint of 1980 edition. Small 8vo paperback (130 x 198mm). Pp512. B&w illustrations. Slight use - good-plus. I have about twenty good books on fish and shellfish cookery. After Jane Grigson's 'Fish cookery', this is the most used of them. Davidson was a career diplomat who joined the Foreign Office after wartime service in the RNVR. Much of his writing explores the cuisine of the places he worked in. His first published book (with Giorgio Bini), Mediterranean Seafood, began life as the privately issued Seafood of Tunisia and the Central Mediterranean, written for his wife while living in Tunis. Davidson also had a spell as ambassador to Laos. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1989). 1989 1st edition. Large 4to (230 x 300mm). Pp208. Beathiful illustrations by Charlotte Knox. Dark blue cloth, spine & upper board titled in silver. Edges dusty but a very good copy in used dust-wrapper. A beautifully "illustrated celebration of the world's seafood divides the fish, crustaceans and molluscs of the world's oceans into clearly organized family groups. The author selects a representative member of each family of species, describes it and uses it in a traditional recipe. Each article is accompanied by an accurate, life-size portrait of the fish in the style of a botanical plate." .…

Brosch. 4°, 122 S. Kleine Abspleissung im Vorderdeckel, allg. etw. knickspurig, Exlibris-Stempel auf vorderem Innendeckel. Erstausgabe.

Brosch. 8°, 47 S., 1 Tafel. Einband min. unsauber, Exlibris-Stempel auf vorderem Innendeckel, sonst tadellos. EA. Ausgegeben an die Gäste der Abdankungsfeier für Alan Davidson in der «Chelsea Old Church», hiermit einem thailändischen Brauch folgend (so der Verstorbene im Beitrag: «On Funeral Cookbooks» von 1988). Mit einem Vorwort von «J. M. D. [Jane Macatee Davidson]», dazu 18 Rezepte und «Marmalade: an Unpublished Letter to 'The Times'».…