ACETARIA A Discourse on Sallets 1699 The Rusticall & Oeconomical Works of John Evelyn

EVELYN John, DRIVER Christopher [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0907325645 / ISBN 13: 9780907325642

Published by Prospect Books, 1996. 9780907325642, 1996

About this Item

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xxi + 130 (no inscriptions).

Seller Inventory # 192088

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ACETARIA A Discourse on Sallets 1699 The Rusticall & Oeconomical Works of John Evelyn
• Publisher: Prospect Books, 1996. 9780907325642
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0907325645
• ISBN 13: 9780907325642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cookery

About this title

Synopsis

This is the big book on salads, and the first in English. John Evelyn's 'Acetaria' is about growing and using salad herbs and salad vegetables and was first printed in 1699. The book is of tremendous interest as an early encouragement to eat more, and better, salads. It tells the reader not only how to make the best dressing, but how to grow the plants themselves. It is a book 300 years before its time, and has long been a classic among cookery enthusiasts. Vegetarians should own this. Gardeners should own it as one of the earliest and clearest studies of herb gardening. Cooks should own it to know how to spice up their salads.

Review

A lovely piece of writing, practical and elegant, serious and intimate, commending an ideal of salad-hood where leaves and herbs 'fall into their places like the notes in music, in which their should be nothing harsh or grating.' -- Times Literary Supplement, July 1997