Combining vivid photography with engaging essays, this book explores the menus, diet, and styles of entertaining that characterized the beloved home of the nation's principal founding father. This book is ideal for veteran and novice cooks alike as well as for those wishing to learn about both formal and everyday dining at Mount Vernon.
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Combining vivid photography with engaging essays, this book explores the menus, diet, and styles of entertaining that characterized the beloved home of the nation's principal founding father. This book is ideal for veteran and novice cooks alike as well as for those wishing to learn about both formal and everyday dining at Mount Vernon.
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Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. pp. 236. 236 pp. Tightly bound. Light, minor ding to just the tip of the top right corner front board. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Old price in pencil at the top right corner front end paper. Very good a dust jacket. Stated FIRST EDITION. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
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Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0807835269. Signed by McLeod on a publisher's bookplate affixed to the half-title page. Green cloth with illustrated endpapers. Creases and rubbing to the rear board, else unmarked. The dust jacket has shallow creasing to the rear flap. Essays by Mary V. Thompson, Dennis J. Pogue, Carol Borchert Cadou, and J. Dean Norton. Contributions by Esther C. White and Steven T. Bashore. Recipes by Nancy Carter Crump. Foreword by Walter Scheib. Combines photography and essays to shed fresh light on the daily lives of George and Martha Washington, on their ceaseless stream of household guests and those who served them, and on the ways food and drink reflected the culture of 18th century America.; 234 pages; Signed by Editor.
