Title: Poor Cook
Publishers: The Cookery Book Club / Macmillan
Publication date: 1971
Edition: First edition
Poor Cook is a beautifully understated cookbook showing the reader that eating cheaply does not mean eating badly. ‘Our greatest condemnation of convenience food,’ says the authors, ‘apart from the fact that it is interior, is that it is very expensive.’ Good homemade food can be very cheap and this cookery book proves it.
Illustrated throughout by Susan Campbell, the recipes are extensive, ranging from soups to eggs, pasta, fish, meats (including, if you so wish, how to butcher a cow and a pig), before finishing with desserts and breads.
Susan Campbell was an artist and illustrator, a food writer and Britain’s leading expert on walled kitchen gardens. And Caroline Conran, former food and cookery editor of The Times ( and ex-wife of Terrance Conran).
Rare and hard to find
Minor wear to back cover
Title: Poor Cook
Publishers: The Cookery Book Club / Macmillan
Publication date: 1971
Edition: First edition
Poor Cook is a beautifully understated cookbook showing the reader that eating cheaply does not mean eating badly. ‘Our greatest condemnation of convenience food,’ says the authors, ‘apart from the fact that it is interior, is that it is very expensive.’ Good homemade food can be very cheap and this cookery book proves it.
Illustrated throughout by Susan Campbell, the recipes are extensive, ranging from soups to eggs, pasta, fish, meats (including, if you so wish, how to butcher a cow and a pig), before finishing with desserts and breads.
Susan Campbell was an artist and illustrator, a food writer and Britain’s leading expert on walled kitchen gardens. And Caroline Conran, former food and cookery editor of The Times ( and ex-wife of Terrance Conran).
Rare and hard to find
Minor wear to back cover
