The Complete Book of Outdoor Cookery - Softcover

Beard, James A.; Brown, Helen Evans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060972068 ISBN 13: 9780060972066

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1989

Synopsis

From the James Beard Foundation:
The Complete Book of Outdoor Cookery
“Complete,” indeed. Recipes ranged from foiled frozen vegetables, roasted bananas, frijoles refritos, and deviled ham steak to broiled marrow bones, roast pheasant with cherries, and truite au bleu. The Complete Book of Outdoor Cookery included instructions for backyard barbecues and picnics, as well as for galley, trailer, and campsite cookery. Beard wrote it with his close friend Helen Brown, a noted food authority and cookbook author on the West Coast. In the book’s preface, they specified just who they thought should do the cooking: “We believe that (charcoal cookery) is primarily a man’s job, and that a woman, if she’s smart, will keep it that way.”

title history:
1955 book published by Doubleday & Company, Inc with Helen Evans Brown being listed first and James Beard being credited as "James A. Beard".
1955 new cover from Weathervane Books
1960 new cover from Pyramid Books with the authors names reversed
*picture of cover unavailable from usable sources
1962 new cover
1989 new cover
1997 new cover
2015 new cover and released as an e-book

note about author:
Books would be released not only as "James Beard", but also "Jim Beard" and "James A, Beard". "Jim Beard" is what his books were first published under.

About this title

From the Publisher

Marlowe is proud to offer classic cookbooks by JAMES BEARD!

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: "Far and away the best thing yet on outdoor cooking...good reading about eating."

FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES: "As complete a book on outdoor cookery as one can find. James Beard is a genius at explaining away the mysteries of well prepared food."

FROM KIRKUS REVIEWS: "The informality and increased flavor of outdoor cookery has made this a favorite way to entertain--and this is just the book to see that you do it well. Certainly an answer to the overworked hot dog or hamburger, this should whip up the ambition as well as the appetite of that man around the house."

FROM JEREMIAH TOWER: "This is a really good book. And it is timeless. Each chapter is crammed with practical advice and personal insight, sensuality, and a friendly desire to eat the food they are talking about. The authors were never geared to fashion, only to what worked and what was realistic at the time, as it still is according to common sense and classical principles."

Edition details

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060972068
• ISBN 13: 9780060972066
• Binding: Paperback