Cartland, Barabara

The Romance of Food [First Edition]

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1984. 1st ed., quarto, original glossy illustrated boards, original illustrated dustjacket, colour photographic plates, illus decorations every pages, pp 176. Very light foxing to the outside edge of the textblock, otherwise completely clean. Near-fine condition in like dustjacket.

"Food and Love have had a close relationship all through the ages." (Barbara Cartland, from Introduction). A wide range of recipes, with footnotes on their history or aphrodaisacal qualities. Features colour photographs, taken at Barbara Cartland's home, and a colour photograph portrait taken by Norman Parkinson showing the author in a pink diamanté dress, Dame Barbara Cartland [1901 - 2000] was the author of hundreds of romance novels (and the step-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales). Exceptionally clean cook book. Item #106157

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