In the original dust jacket. White hard board binding with gilt title on the spine and front board.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean extremely rare 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, so the surprise set menu changes regularly and is ‘Midsummer’s’ playground to showcase.

Facsimile reprint of the 1877 edition with an introduction by Derek Hudson. Centaur Press, London, 1968. 8vo. cloth 500pp. a very good, clean copy. A typical cookery book of the Victorian era with recipes from the celebrated restaurateur Auguste Kettner. Arranged alphabetically from Absinthe to Zootje.

Kettner’s

One of London’s oldest restaurants, founded by chef Auguste Kettner in 1867, Kettner’s is located inside a townhouse in Soho and serves a seasonal French bistro menu. Stay in one of the 33 bedrooms featuring antique furnishings reminiscent of the building’s Georgian history.