Philip Harben's Cookery Encyclopedia - vintage hardcover recipe book 1955

PHILIP HARBEN'S COOKERY ENCYCLOPEDIA

by Philip Harben

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Hardcover book with dustjacket in good condition. Published 1955, 480 pages with B&W and colour photographs throughout. Clean book, tight binding, minor chipping to dustjacket edges, name inside front cover, no other marks, tears, loose or missing pages. Dustjacket is covered in clear protective mylar.

The blurb of the book:

The author of this entirely new A-Z guide to good cooking needs no introduction to the millions of British families who own a television set.

Philip Harben, whose entertaining demonstrations of cookery on the BBC's Television Service have made him a host of friends, has shown beyond all doubt that he has the magic secret of making women listen to a man on their pet subject and know they have met a master. And they have - for Harben not only approaches cooking with the understanding of an artist, but he makes his triumphs as exciting to others as they are to himself. Everything he teaches is so clearly explained that even mere men want to make a bee-line for the kitchen to try their hand - so simple does he make cooking seem.

The same gusto and enthusiasm that have made the genial Harben such a delight to watch on television come through the pages of this encyclopedia, which he has planned with the same common-sense clarity, and spiced wtih the same twinkling humour, as his famous telecasts. Hundreds of exclusive Harben recipes are her published for the very first time. There are recipes for meat, fish, poultry, cheese and egg dishes, soups, savouries, sweets of all kinds - from the most simple to the more ambitious. Traditional English, French and Italian dishes are all to be found within, and for the cook who likes to experiment a little there are such intriguing Harben 'specials' as Chicken Maryland, Lobster Newburg, Sole Dieppoise, Danish Smorrebrod, and various pilaffes, risottos, kebabs, souffles and sauces.

Here, too, you will find Harbens hints on kitchen utensils, carving, cookery methods of all kinds, hygiene, food values, seasons of food, French and English cookery terms, menus covering the entire year, notes on wines and on the history of food and many other interesting items.

The book is exceptionally well illustrated, with a frontispiece and sixteen pages in glowing full colour and nearly three hunderd and fifty superb (black and white) photographs. There are also delightful 'gastronomic' maps of the British Isles, France and Italy, which show pictorially where the traditional foods and wines of these countries come from.

In short, Philip Harben's Cookery Encyclopedia contains everything the enthusiastic cook needs to know to ensure one hundred percent success in the kitchen.
This book is a UK publication, measurements are in imperial.

About the Author

Philip Harben

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Philip Harben's Cookery Encyclopedia vintage 1955 cookbook