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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Add this copy of Venus in the Kitchen; Or, Love's Cookery Book...Edited to cart. $24.41, very good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1952 by William Heinemann.
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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.
Add this copy of Venus in the Kitchen Or Love's Cookery Book to cart. $29.11, like new condition, Sold by Bibliodisia Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1953 by The Viking Press.
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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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