Around the World in Eighty Dishes

A grand tour for the style buds—a pleasant basic cookbook of the postwar period from a well-traveled lady.

 

This charming little e-book was first revealed in 1956, when individuals in England have been nonetheless enduring postwar restrictions on each touring and consuming. Within the phrases of its writer, Lesley Blanch, “benign destiny whisked me elsewhere to comply with much less restricted methods, travelling extensively and consuming wildly.”

 

Her gastronomic world tour consists of eighty recipes, every prefaced by an account of the place they have been first tasted or with some amusing anecdote. You’ll discover scrumptious dishes from her journeys round Europe and to the Center East and Far East, Africa, the Pacific, Central and South America, and even a great outdated Baked Virginia Ham from the USA.