Green cloth binding with black title.

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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.

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers’ Original Binding, Very Scarce. Though this volume is not to be considered a cookery book, the subject treated in its pages is one of the most important in connection with the art of cookery, namely, the preservation of food. A subject of vast importance, this work explores and explains the best methods of preserving meats, fruits, vegetables, and condiments. Written by Arthur Gay Payne, an English sports editor and writer on cookery, who often wrote under the pseudonym Phillis Browne. Dated from the British Library.

Arthur Gay Payne (7 February 1840, Camberwell – 1 April 1894, Penzance) who also wrote under the pseudonym Phillis Browne was an English sports editor and writer on cookery. The son of John Robert Payne, Payne was educated at University College School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. There he coxed his college boat. A friend of the athlete J. G. Chambers: he advised and helped the swimmer Matthew Webb (editing his Art of Swimming in 1875). From 1871 to 1883 he was the sporting editor of the Standard, He also edited The Billiard News from 1875 to 1878, and was assistant editor of Land and Water until 1883. He contributed to Bell’s Life in London, Girl’s Own, and Cassell’s Popular Recreation (writing on conjuring and cricket). Payne was not a vegetarian but authored an early vegetarian cookbook Cassell’s Vegetarian Cookery in 1891.