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For conditions, please view our photographs. An original  book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG.

Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. The Midsummer House experience is imaginatively curated to delight and amaze.

This cookbook presents the art of preparing Japanese foods characterized by their natural taste and appearance. It provides authentic master recipes for various foods including shushi, noodles, sashimi and tempura and gives insights into the traditions which lie behind Japanese cuisine. Elizabeth Lambert Ortiz is the award-winning author of several ethnic cookery books including “The Complete Book of Mexican Cooking”,”Caribbean Cooking” and “The Book of Latin American Cooking”. She was a principal consultant for the Time-Life “Foods of the World” series and a consultant for the Time-Life “Good Cook” series.

Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz (17 June 1915 – 27 October 2003) was a British food writer who popularized Latin American cuisine in the United States and the United Kingdom. Initially a writer of poetry and fiction, she began working in the culinary field upon moving to Mexico City with her second husband, and continued to work on the cuisines of the areas to which he was posted as a diplomat. She was nominated for three James Beard Foundation Awards, winning twice.

Lambert Ortiz travelled with her husband across Latin America and Asia during the 1960s, with her first cookbook, The Complete Book Of Mexican Cooking, published in 1967. She followed this up with The Book Of Latin American Cooking and The Complete Book Of Caribbean Cooking over the following few years. She wrote extensively for Gourmet magazine and several Time-Life publications. She also wrote a Complete Book of Japanese Cooking in 1976 with Mitsuko Endo while Ortiz Tinoco was posted to Bangkok. After her husband retired in 1980, they settled in Ealing, West London and her cookbooks began to be published in the UK as well as a book on nouvelle cuisine entitled A Taste Of Excellence in 1986.