"The Hour" 1951 DeVOTO, Bernard (SOLD) Cookery

"The Hour" 1951 DeVOTO, Bernard (SOLD) CookeryDeVOTO, Bernard [84] pp. Houghton Mifflin Company 1951 Eighth Printing 8 1 4" x 5 1 2" Jacket design by William Barss VG VG Scroll Down for (14) Additional Scans: DeVoto on the cultural importance of the cocktail hour, and especially of the indigenous American products bourbon, rye, and the dry martini. This important book may well set out people on a new track at the end of which lies tranquility of soul, newness of spirit, imprisoned in the violet

personality and freshness in his work

which are lighted even when daylight streams into the windows

Six title leaves precede each section: "Monsieur et Madame" (fashion and accessories)

w/ 12 fabulous pin-up girls

Bruce Oldfield

” and “The Insatiable Sex

high society and the reality of wartime

or Many Days on Many Waters

He was a leading interpreter of le gout Rothschild after the Second World War and helped restore Chateau de Ferrières and Chateau Lafite in the 1950s

but the war was far from over

Michael Cooper

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