Les Liaisons Culinaires. First Printing

Staikos, Andreas

ISBN 10: 1860468020 / ISBN 13: 9781860468025

Published by London. The Harvill Press, 2000

About this Item

London. The Harvill Press. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1 to copyright page). Hard Cover. Pott 4to 8" x 6¼ " [20cm x 10cm] approx. 106 pp. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine. Wraparound design to clipped dust wrapper by Jeff Fisher. The book presents as new but has a clipped dust wrapper and gift inscription so has been graded as near fine. Translated from the Greek by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife. Line drawings in the text by Jeff Fisher. Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats. They share a love of cooking, and, it soon transpires, a lover - Nana. What follows is the story of their competition to win Nana's heart through her appetite. As the plates pile up, and the recipes grow ever more mouth watering, a bizarre and comic duel develops, fought with sea-urchin salads, stuffed vine leaves and delicacies from all corners of the Aegean to win the consummate femme fatale or to end up with the sting in the tail. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival quality acetate sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Les Liaisons Culinaires. First Printing
• Publisher: London. The Harvill Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860468020
• ISBN 13: 9781860468025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

What is it about Nana's two lovers, Dimitris and Damocles, that makes her relationship with each of them so expectantly delectable? Could it be the succulent dishes with which they compete so eagerly to tempt her? The 17 chapters of this book include recipes from the shores of the Aegean.

From the Inside Flap

wo suitors and seventeen delicious dishes: in Athens seduction starts in the kitchen... Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats, on the same floor. They share a love of cooking, and, it soon transpires, a lover -- Nana. What follows is the story of their competition to win Nana's heart through her stomach -- each performing ever more succulent culinary feats in an effort to defeat his rival. As the dishes pile up, and the recipes -- listed in their entirety at the end of every chapter -- grow more and more mouth-watering, it becomes a bizarre and comic duel, fought with sea-urchin salads, stuffed vine leaves and delicacies from all corners of the Aegean, to win the consummate femme fatal.