Not your ordinary cookbook! And not your run-of-the-mill aphrodisiac recipes, either: Testicles of lamb. Skink. Vulvae Steriles. Pish-Pash. Fritters of Elder Flower. Sucking pig with eels, et al. But what would you expect from that fount of English lettres, the inimitable Norman Douglas, founder of the Capri School of Writing who, following a leisurely dinner with a coterie of middle-aged notables (including Graham Greene and D.H. Lawrence), was lamenting their declining vigour. Douglas proposed their salvation might be ...
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Not your ordinary cookbook! And not your run-of-the-mill aphrodisiac recipes, either: Testicles of lamb. Skink. Vulvae Steriles. Pish-Pash. Fritters of Elder Flower. Sucking pig with eels, et al. But what would you expect from that fount of English lettres, the inimitable Norman Douglas, founder of the Capri School of Writing who, following a leisurely dinner with a coterie of middle-aged notables (including Graham Greene and D.H. Lawrence), was lamenting their declining vigour. Douglas proposed their salvation might be found in certain legendary dishes whose ingredients reputedly were capable of reviving failing ardours. While not every gourmet will be able to obtain skink, a aphrodisical reptile native to the deserts of Africa, or clean and truss a young crane, much less obtain a sufficiency of leapord's marrow to cook in goat's milk (a recipe for offsetting timidity), the ubiquitous oyster is present in various recipes, as are other comestibiles found in American cupboards.
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VG. No Jacket. 8vo. original pale burgundy cloth gilt (cloth a little rubbed, some mild dust-marking and fading, occ. spot, else clean and unmarked internally; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xiv (last blank), 192, with illustrations. A very good copy.
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Bruce Roberts. Fine. Introduction by Graham Greene. Inconspicuous cellotape repair to edges of jacket spine. Price intact. A clean, bright, unmarked copy in a Brodart jacket cover. An attractive copy. Octavo.
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Very Good. NY: Viking 1953. 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo 192 pgs. B/w plus a little color on the illustrations. Very good in a near good dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers. Toning to top and bottom edges of covers for about an inch from masking tape applied to jacket edges. 2 small red marker hearts at top corner of front pastedown. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket stained at edges from the masking tape which is on the reverse side of jacket. Rear panel foxed. (Cooking, Cookbook) Inquire if you need further information.