Green Pepper Berries: a new taste
London, Elizabeth David Ltd Kitchen Utensils, 1972. David, Elizabeth. Green Pepper Berries: a new taste. [FIRST EDITION] Elizabeth David Kitchen Utensils: Pimlico, 1972. 4to (125z105mm) white printed wrappers, stapled [8]pp. wrappers soiled; signs of kitchen use
Second-hand softcover
DAVID, Elizabeth [née Gwynne (1913 - 1992)]
Green Pepper Berries: a new taste
Pimlico : Elizabeth David Kitchen Utensils, 1972. First and only edition¹. Printed by Hopkins & Bailey, Birmingham. No price.
Quarto (125x105mm) white printed wrappers, stapled, [8]pp. Wrappers soiled; small signs of kitchen use.
¶ The Elizabeth David Kitchen Utensils shop opened in Pimlico in November 1965, just off Sloane Square. For the next five or so years, the shop consumed much of David's attention, leaving little time for writing. During this time she self-published pamphlets for sale in the the shop partially based on earlier works for various magazines to meet the demand in the shop from customers for information and advice.
Four pamphlets published between 1967 and 1969 are well known, albeit scarce: Dried Herbs, Aromatics & Condiments; English Potted Meats & Fish Pastes, The Baking of an English Loaf; and Syllabubs and Fruit Fools.
Green Pepper Berries was David's last pamphlet for the shop. By mid-1972, the differences between the shareholders and David over the direction of the business had reached the point that David felt compelled to resign and cease all connection with the business, placing a notice in the Times to that effect.
A rare and ephemeral promotional pamphlet.
§ OCLC records only one holding, Harvard, in the archive of David's papers.
¹ In 1974, Williams-Sonoma published a booklet with a much longer introduction and the five recipes (see Norman, Jill (comp). Is There a Nutmeg in the House? London : Michael Joseph, 2000, p.93).
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