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Illustration in lush colors of a South American accordion player with a maracas player on a tropical moonlit night
It is for this
Written by undernourished and starving women in the Czechoslovakian ghetto/concentration camp of Terezín (also known as Theresienstadt)
pull off home-cooked dinners with their families with stunning regularity
(Cocktails) Baker, Charles H., Jr. The South American Gentleman's Companion: Volume I Being an Exotic Cookery Book, Volume II Being an Exotic Drinking Book. 2 vols. cooking "—TastingTableBlue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slipcase. First Edition. NY: Crown Publishers, 1951. The scarcer follow up to Baker's 1946 set, The Gentleman's Companion, with South American food and drink like the tropical orchid cocktail, orange paradise cocktail, Bogota blackjack cocktail, baked giant smelts, coq du Barsac, lomitos de carne, etc. Written in prose, including recipes, with historical and cultural references and anecdotes. A touch of sunning to