(Italian) Isola, Anotonia. Simple Italian Cookery.

Cloth. First Edition. NY: Harper, [1912].

Antonia Isola (born May 16, 1876 in New York), is the pseudonym of Mabel Earl McGinnis. She wrote Simple Italian Cookery, published by Harper and Brothers, February, 1912. It was the first Italian cookbook to be published in the US. She had lived in Rome for some years, and was well-versed in Italian cooking but the publishers chose the pseudonym to impart "authenticity" to the work. As if ravioli with brains weren't authentic enough. Browning to spine, small piece of cloth lacking from mid-spine, chipping to spine ends and mild rubbing to corners, else very good. 

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