"First Slice Your Cook-Book The Three Tier Menu Guide" 1965 BOXER, Arabella
$150
BOXER, Arabella
(photographed by David Bailey on rear slipcase cover)
[211] pp.
Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd.
1965
w/ Decorations by Alan Cracknell
Spiral-bound in publisher's slipcase
With the original pictorial slipcase featuring a photograph of the author by David Bailey on the back panel. With endpaper photographs by John Hedgecoe. The contents are divided into three interchangeable sections which can be mix and matched to assemble three courses at a glance, the sections being Soups, Hors d'oeuvre; Main Dishes; Sweets, Savouries. On the left hand panel is the name of the dish and ingredients, while on the right panel is the cooking instruction. With 210 recipes in total. "The aim of this book is to help people plan their meals by enabling them to consider each dish in relation to the next, and to see all three courses at a glance"
Mark Boxer's first marriage was to Lady Arabella Stuart, youngest daughter of the eighteenth Earl of Moray, with whom he had two children. As Arabella Boxer, she became a successful cookery writer, after Boxer designed her first book, First Slice Your Cookbook, in 1964.