[Rarebooks] FS: Fine restaurant cookbooks

[Nina W. Matheson]

Offered:  All handsome, toothsome and delicious to browse and read.

Molyneux, Joyce. The Carved Angel cookery book. 
By Joyce Molyneux with Sophie Grigson. [London] 
Collins [1990]. First edition. Pebbled mustard 
paper boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. 176 pp. 
Signed by Molyneux on the front 
endpaper.  Molyneux was a top English chef in the 
late 1970s and 1980s, known for her cooking in 
the Bath restaurant, Hole in the Wall owned by 
George Perry-Smith and Heather Crosbie, and for 
television appearances on BBC4’s Take Six Cooks and BBC2’s Floyd on Fish.  $25.

Taruschio, Ann and Franco. Leaves from The Walnut 
Tree: recipes of a lifetime. [London] Pavilion 
[1993]. Illustrated by Sarah van Niekerk. First 
edition. Pebbled green paper boards. Fine in fine 
dust jacket. 256 pp. Signed by the authors on the 
front endpaper.  Elizabeth David declared the 
Walnut Tree Inn, one of the most distinctive and 
celebrated restaurants in Britain in the 1970s 
and 80s, her favorite restaurant in Great Britain. $25.

Girardet, Fredy. Cuisine spontanée. Translated 
and adapted by Susan Campbell. [London] Macmillan 
[1985].  First edition. Pebbled red paper boards. 
Fine in fine dust jacket. 266 pp. Described by 
many as the finest chef in Europe in the 1970s 
and 80s, Girardet received one of the highest 
honors in the restaurant trade, the Gault-Millau 
Guide’s Clé d’Or. His restaurant at Creissier 
near Lausanne Switzerland was a destination for many gourmets. $20.

Olney, Richard. Lulu’s provencal table: the 
exuberant food and wine from Domaine Tempier 
Vineyard. Foreword by Alice Waters. Photographs 
by Gail Skoff. [New York] HarperCollins 
Publishers [1994]. First edition. Quarter brown 
cloth with cream paper boards. Fine in fine dust 
jacket. 364 pp. The Domaine, one of the fine 
properties of the Bandol, is owned by Lulu and 
Lucien Peyraud, whose hospitality is celebrated 
and remembered by many, including such food 
writers as Marion Cunningham, Barbara Kafka, 
Patricial Wells, and Paula Wolfert. $20.

Brown, David and Hilary. La Potinière and 
friends. London [etc.] Century [1990]. Reprint 
edition. Textured black paper boards. Fine in 
fine dust jacket. 224 pp. Inscribed by the 
authors on the verso of the half-title.  Located 
in Gullane, outside Edinburgh, La Potinière was 
for 20 years Scotland’s most respected 
restaurant, serving French inspired renditions of 
locally sourced food, accompanied by an exceptional wine cellar.  $20.

Rodgers, Judy. The Zuni Cafe cookbook. Wine notes 
and selections [by] Gerald Asher. Photography 
[by] Gentl and Hyters/Edge. New York, London, W. 
W. Norton and Company [2002]. Quarter grey paper 
with mustard paper boards. Fine in fine dust 
jacket. 547 pp.  One of the most skilled cooks 
and food writers today, praised by Alice Waters, 
Chuck Willliams, Paula Wolfert, and Marion 
Cunningham among others, Rodgers received the 
James Beard Foundation Best Chef: California 
award for 2000. The Zuni Cafe is one of San 
Francisco’s long sought out restaurants. $20.

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