Exotic Cookbook & Cocktail Guide: The South American Gentleman's Companion Volumes I & II by Charles H. Baker Jr. - Perfect for Home Bartending & International Cuisine Exploration

Product Description

Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slipcase. First Edition. NY: Crown Publishers, 1951.

The scarcer follow-up to Baker's 1946 set, The Gentleman's Companion, with South American food and drink like the tropical orchid cocktail, orange paradise cocktail, Bogota blackjack cocktail, baked giant smelts, coq du Barsac, lomitos de carne, etc. Written in prose, including recipes, with historical and cultural references and anecdotes. A touch of sunning to spines, else very good - a nice set.