(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Carving) Michael Willis. Cookery Made Easy: Being a Complete System of Domestic Management, uniting Elegance with Economy Chez Panisse This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook

This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the “greater part of the pleasure of this life

followed by big plates

and Benne Seed Biscuits to Thirteen-Bean Soup

and recasts well-known dishes in utterly delicious ways

(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Carving) Michael Willis. Cookery Made Easy: Being a Complete System of Domestic Management, uniting Elegance with Economy Chez Panisse This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbookxvii, 245 + [1] ad pp. Illus. with 5 wood engraved plates of carving and trussing. Yellow cloth. London: Webb, Millington & Co., 1860. A little book for the 19th c. English cook, first published in 1824, with illustrations and instructions for trussing and carving, as well as methods of curing and drying hams and tongues, how to make condiments, sauces and vinegars, and of course, recipes. There are also charts for marketing and budgeting in the back.