Mary Gallati's Good Cooking Companion

London: Abbey. Good/Good. Hard Cover. 8vo No date circa 1960s. Dust jacket tears, some loss to edge. Original cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Slightly darkened pages. Illustrated. 261 pages. Mary Gallati, author of the outstandingly successful Hostess Dinner Book, requires no introduction to everyone who values good food exquisitely cooked and presented. As the daughter of Mario of the Caprice, the world-famous London restaurateur, and as an author and T.V. broadcaster on the culinary art in her own right, Miss Gallati is superbly well equipped to advise on this, perhaps the most civilised of human pleasures. In Mary Gallati's Good Cooking Companion her flair for finding the unusual dish, the delectable sauce, the extra mouth-watering flavour, has found its fullest expression. Yet this book, which has taken three years to compile and perfect, differs in an even greater respect from all other cookery guides. In addition to covering an encyclopaedic range of food, with expert advice on when and what to buy, Miss Gallati goes on to show how left-overs can be made to yield fresh series of delicious meals. Her Good Cooking Companion is therefore not only an epicure's dream but an invaluable and highly practical vademecum for the hostess and housewife for whom household economics are a stern reality. .