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What To Grow & How To Cook It by William Blackley

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Part gardening book, part cookbook, What To Grow & How To Cook It was a rare publishing feat in the 1950s, combing two ideas that seemed quite radical at the time.

I particularly enjoy Blackley's writing and his turn of phrase. For example, while talking through how to boil parsnips, he prefaces it by saying: "Pardon me putting it so bluntly, but if your family or your guests don't like any of the following, there must be something wrong with them. So here goes."

Lovely little illustrations doted throughout by William Kermode

Published in 1955 by T. Werner Laurie Limited. First edition

Rare book, this cover especially is hard to find in the UK

Chipping to dust jacket, foxing to pages. Please refer to the photos for more details