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(Chinese) Lee, M.P. Chinese Cookery.
$60.00
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Illus. with decorations by Chiang Yee. Yellow cloth, jacket. London: Faber & Faber, [1949].
First published in 1943, in the midst of World War II, this book not only gives instructions on Chinese cooking and cooking terms, but also provides a list (with addresses) of sixteen Chinese restaurants in London at the time. Recipes include chicken and chestnuts, braised pigeon, duck and dried tangerine skin, tung-go pork, fish head soup, etc. Piece of jacket lacking from spine ends, else fine in very good, bright jacket.