Food alla Florentine

Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. Presumed first edition (unstated). Oblong quarto on color illus tan jacket; xi, 179 pages illustrations 20 x 24 cm. Translation of Firenze in padella. Very fine in fine jacket. Hardcover. ISBN:

A remarkably crisp, tight copy. Uncommon thus. ¶ Translation of: Firenze in Padella. ¶ Contents: Introduction -- Renaissance dinner menu I from the Third Florence International Antiques Fair -- Renaissance dinner menu II -- Menus from the fifth fair -- Lunch prepared by the Milanese exhibitors -- Recipes from Il Romanzo della Grande Cucina -- Buffet at Villa Marignolle I -- Buffet at Villa Marignolle II -- Buffet at Villa Marignolle III -- Summer lunch I -- Summer lunch II -- Italian lunch fro friends from abroad -- Tuscan country home style menu -- Luncheon menu -- Almost formal dinner -- Dinner at nine for six -- Dinner at the fair -- Cooking abroad -- Pasta festival -- Beppe's favorite recipes -- Naomi on her own -- Index.

"Twenty superb menus featuring one hundred and fifty outstanding recipes from the most celebrated tables in Florence"--Front cover of dust jacket

Menus. Cuisine italienne. Cooking, Italian. Menus. Class Descriptors: LC: TX723; Dewey: 641.5/945; NLM: 641.59 B281f Responsibility: [by] Naomi Barry & Beppe Bellini. Illus. by Bill Goldsmith.