The Gourmet's Guide to Europe
London, Grant Richards, 1911. Newnham-Davis, Liet.-Col. N. The Gourmet's Guide to Europe. (3rd Ed). Grant Richards Ltd: London, UK 1911. 12mo (165x110mm) HC dark red cloth, gilt lettered xiii,[1],400pp. Near Fine/- lacks dj (remnant pasted to fpd) else bright & clean After a successful career in the Army in South Africa and India, Newnham-Davis became a journalist and author. Although he wrote several novels and plays, he is best remembered for his gastronomic writing, chiefly as the dining correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette. A lifelong bachelor, he regularly dined at (and impartially reviewed) London and Europe’s great hotels and restaurants in company with a succession of companions given discreet pseudonyms in his restaurant reviews. From the preface: “In the present edition a considerable amount of new information regarding the bourgeois restaurants will be found in the Paris chapter and the chapter on the restaurants of French provincial towns has been amplified.” In addition, chapters on dining throughout Europe include Hungary, Roumania (sic), Servia (sic), Bulgaria and Russia. Elizabeth David thought highly of his writing and his suggested menu for breakfasting in Venice from the first edition is included in her first book, A Book of Mediterranean Food. Sadly, the Quadri had closed by 1911 so the menu is not included in this edition, but the Colonel still had many other excellent recommendations to make. An elegant copy from an important gastronomic figure of Edwardian England.
Second-hand hardcover
NEWNHAM-DAVIS, Lieut.-Col. N [Nathaniel (1854 – 1917)]
The Gourmet's Guide to Europe
London: Grant Richards Ltd Publishers, 1911. Third Edition. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co, Edinburgh & London
Lacks dustjacket (a partial remnant is neatly glued to the front paste-down); corners and edges very lightly bruised, faint offset toning to preliminaries, several neat pencil marks; else a bright and near fine copy.
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