The Gentleman’s Companion Volume 1 – Being an Exotic Cookery Book

Vol. 1 – Being an Exotic Cookery Book or, Around the World with Knife, Fork, and Spoon. Including: A Company of Hand-Picked Recipes, each one Beloved & Notable in its Place, collected faithfully on Three Voyages & a Quarter Million Miles around the World & Other Journeys. Not Forgetting: Certain Valuable Words to the Wise, Gleaned from Divers Chefs in Many & Strange Places; & the Home Formulae for Construction of such Intriguing Exotics as Hell-Fire Bitters, Key West Old Lime Sour, Herb Vinegars; to Say Nothing of Various Strange and Delicious Sauces & Bastings for Fish, Flesh, Fowl, & the Wilder Games. Long before Julia Child introduced French cooking to American palates, Charles Baker and The Derrydale Press published a highly unusual collection of recipes for its day: exotic recipes from around the world for unusual hors’ d’oeuvres, soups, fish, shellfish, poultry, game, meat, vegetables, fruits and desserts. From avocado salad recipes discovered by the author in Cuba to grouse recipes from the Scottish moors, the author’s tour de force belongs on the shelf of every serious cook.