A Commonplace Book of Cookery: A Collection of Proverbs, Anecdotes, Opinions and Obscure Facts on Food, Drink, Cooks, Cooking, Dining, Diners & Dieters, dating from ancient times to the present

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Commonplace books, observes M. F. K. Fisher in her preface to this collection, “are rarely compiled by commonplace people.” Robert Grabhorn was a San Francsico fine printer and publisher who “also worked diligently at the arts of eating and drinking.” Thanks to his lifelong habits of reading, clipping, and filing, his “fever for the printed word,” we can, with him, “pluck gastronomical crumbs from off and from under the tables of the great, sub-great, s… More >>