IS THERE A NUTMEG IN THE HOUSE? Essays on Practical Cooking with More Than 150 Recipes
Elizabeth David, . . Viking, $25.95 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-670-03033-0
An Englishwoman who traipsed through Africa and the Mediterranean countries in the early 1940s, David (1913–1992) opened up a world of flavors and techniques that must have seemed seductively exotic to a postwar Great Britain still struggling with food rationing. She was perhaps best known for
Reviewed on: 09/17/2001
Genre: Nonfiction
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