(WWII) Co. Halstead C. Fowler & Dorothy Wagner. Recipes Out of Bilibid.

Illus. with little drawings. Jacket. First Edition. NY: George W. Stewart, [1946].

An incredible record of recipes collected by prisoners of war in Bilibid, in the Philippines, where they had been captured by the Japanese during World War II. Realizing that talking about food from home sustained the starving P.O.W.'s, Chick Halstead, himself a prisoner, began to record recipes.

According to his aunt in the foreword, "Chick began his collection after the Death March and his removal to Davao; he continued it till the day of his rescue from Bilibid. When the other prisoners learned of his project they became interested, and since they were constantly shifted from one camp to another, hundreds of men gave or sent to him, always by word of mouth, their specially prized recipes." Mild chipping or rubbing to jacket extremities and spine ends, else very good and bright. 

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