First printing, with early Mojito recipe
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Heading: (Food & Drink)
Author: De Baralt, Blanche Z.
Title: Cuban Cookery: Gastronomic Secrets of the Tropics, with an Appendix on Cuban Drinks
Place Published: Havana
Publisher:Editorial "Hermes"
Date Published: 1931
Description:
Author: De Baralt, Blanche Z.
Title: Cuban Cookery: Gastronomic Secrets of the Tropics, with an Appendix on Cuban Drinks
Place Published: Havana
Publisher:Editorial "Hermes"
Date Published: 1931
Description:
150 pp. 19x12.5 cm (7½x5"), black cloth, red cover label printed in black. First Edition, First Printing.
Arguably the first appearance of the Mojito – The Rum Cocktail (Cuban mojo), as well as a Cuban coffee recipe and long-forgotten cocktails such as the Mary Pickford, the Havana Yacht Club Cocktail, and the Cuban Manhattan (sub rum for whisky). Scarce, OCLC locates only 2 copies of this printing held by the University of Florida and the Kungliga Biblioteket in Sweden. Brownies recipe handwritten on receipt and laid in loose.
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Wear and tear to cloth, front bottom corner chipped; pages faintly toned; very good.
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First printing, with early Mojito recipe
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