(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Middle Eastern) Claudia Roden. A Book of Middle Eastern Food. SIGNED!

Illus. by Alta Ann Parkins. Jacket. First American Edition. NY: Alfred Knopf, 1972.

Bookplate signed by Roden mounted to front free endpaper. Roden's first book; the author's career has lasted many decades, and her expertise in the cooking of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean cannot be overstated. This book is replete with traditional recipes from various countries across the region, with an extensive list of herbs and spices in rear. Piece of jacket lacking from upper front panel, with more chips and short tears around it as well as to jacket corners & extremities, else good.

(fine/rare)