Philip Harben — The Way to Cook

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945 . First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition of eminent radio and TV chef Philip Harben's first book on the fundamentals of cooking. First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding. With clipped dust wrapper.The first book from eminent radio and TV chef Philip Harben, who starred in a 1943 BBC radio show, later moving to television in 1946. Despite having no formal training, Harben ran several successful restaurants and aimed to teach his audience the fundamentals of cooking. The present volume contains tips and tricks on sauces, vegetables, tea and coffee, simple English sweets, and much more, with additional chapters to the rear on nutrition, caring for pots and pans and assessing the correct quantities of ingredients. Following the positive reception of this edition, Harben went on to write around twenty more texts on the same subject. In publisher's original cloth binding. With clipped dust wrapper. Externally, reasonably smart with slight bumping and rubbing, several marks and subtle discolouration. Dust wrapper suffers marginally more from shelf wear, resulting in small closed tears to edges, especially to the rear, and chip to the spine head with cover beginning to come away. Internally, firmly bound. Moderate spotting and discolouration throughout work. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good/Good.