Volume 4, Number 3 · March 11, 1965
Table d'Hote
By Michael Field
The Delectable Past
by Esther B. Aresty
Simon & Schuster, 254 pp., $6.50
The Vogue Book of Menus
by Jessica Daves, by Tatiana McKenna. and the Editors of Vogue
Harper & Row, 338 pp., $6.95
The Chamberlain Calendar of French Menus
by Narcisse, Narcissa G., by Samuel Chamberlain
Hastings House, 54 pp., $1.50
Gourmet's Menu Cookbook
Gourmet Distributing Co., 652 pp., $13.75
If cookbook writing is somewhat less than inspired today, it had a more illustrious past. Or so, at least, Esther B. Aresty says in her book about cookbooks, The Delectable Past. An intense bibliophile, she has collected cookbooks for the past twenty years, and her impressive library, listed only partially in the appendix of her book, spans the centuries from antiquity to the present day.
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