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"The Constance Spry Cookery Book" 1957 SPRY, Constance and HUME, Rosemary

SPRY, Constance and HUME, Rosemary

[1246] pp.

E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc

1957

9 1/2" x 6 1/4"

VG/ VG

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"In the late 1920's Constance Spry opened a small flower shop. She started a floristry school and founded the Cordon Bleu Cookery School with Rosemary Hume and later opened Winkfield Place, the residential school near Windsor. Rosemary Hume opened her cookery school 'Au Petit Cordon Bleu in London having graduated from the Cordon Bleu Cookery School in Paris." from the flap. "Cookery is vast, detailed, and lovely. The purpose of the book was to take the knowledge of culinary professionals and write it in a form that British housewives could understand and use. It was, and it remains, the British cookery [and cooking] bible."-


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