(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Southern) Lewis, Edna. In Pursuit of Flavor

Illus. with drawings by Louisa Jones Waller. Written in conjunction with Mary Goodbody. Jacket. First Edition. NY: Knopf, 1988. 

San Francisco chef/restaurateur Gordon Drysdale's copy, with his small signature to upper front free endpaper. Edna Lewis was a hugely important voice in Southern cooking, and here she introduces readers to seasonal American dishes such as pumpkin with sauteed onions and herbs, wild watercress cooked in pork stock, Charleston style she-crab soup, oyster stew with salsify, pan-fried quail with country ham, Tyler pie, etc. Mild sunning to jacket spine, else very good.

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