Evening star., 1941-12-04
Parade OF
Cookery
Books

That busy busy publshlng mouse,
M. Barrows g. Co., Inc, of New York,
has Just come out with three new
books for the kitchen lihrary-and
offers them in special packaging for
the holiday gift season. Any one of
them or all three together would
prove a welcome remembrance to
the woman who rejoices in her Gull
nary skill and believes that one is
never too old to learn new tricks.
First in line-just because it came
out of the box that way-is Jeanne
Owens Book of Sauces" gay in a
bright blue binding and packed from
cover to cover with revelations
about that culinary masterpieces
good sauce Some one has said that
a dish was only as successful as its
sauce-and in the majority Of cases
that is only too true. Especially
now. when housewives are having
food conservation, nutrition, budget
buying and so on dinned into their
ears until they wish they were deaf, !
study Of sauces is particularly
timely So much can be done with |
them to embellish inexpensive or
routine dishes that they will prove
to be the magic touch that makes .
for every cooks success in the /
make something out of nothing"
field
Mrs. Owen, who leaped to fame |
Gas author of "A Wine Lovers Cook |
Book" explains in detail all the So !
called mysteries of sauce making in |
her latest volume. Recipes are clas-
sified as basic" then as to vari- |
ations on original themes, and then |
as to uses. Some of the sauces are |
a gourmet'S dream concoctions, of
course, but there are plenty of
others. inexpensive and simple to
prepare, that any novice can feel
free to undertake
Ann Batchelder's own Cook
Book will be fallen upon with
whoops of JOY by that legion of
women to whom her writings, in
magazine and book form, have been
gospel for these many years. Any
treatise on cookery that springs
from Miss Batchelder's typewriter
Is sure to be charmingly written,
accurate and we'll above the usual
type OF work in its field.
This newcomer is no exception.
1t is witty, rich with delightful
scenes of the rural America of an
other generation, abounds in super
lative recipes, and is handsomely
bound in holiday red. AS example
Of the wit-take the Anna
Grams section. where Miss Batch
elder remarks among a wealth of
other quips, "A canape is some
thing that flirts with the appetite,
marries the cocktail and divorces
the dinner from dullness": Don't
think the meal can be better than
the coffee The final exit is the
one reviewers remember" An
omelet isn't as tricky as it's said
to be. Its behavior depends largely
on yours, The beginning Of hash
is the end of cold meat" and Your
cook book is e guide But it's not
the picture gallery. You are the
al iyt and the framer."
And if all this wasn't enough,
there's a section of side-splitting
essays, 2 group of poems, and
whole batch of illustrations that
make one toss overheard all those
calory resolutions without even one
sigh of regret!
Washington has a finger in the
very delightful pie that results in
the production of Magic in Herbs"
by Leonie de Sounin, for it is dedi-
Gated to the authors collaboration,
Ruth S-B. Feis, who lives in an
enchanting little house in George
town and is, in private life, wife of
Mr.. Herbert Feis of our State De-
partment. Also. the book is filled
with photographs taken at the
Weathered Oak Herb Farm in
Bethesda - which makes it even
more our very own"
A foreWord by Miriam Birdseye,
extension nutritionist of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
pays delicate tribute to the late
Mrs. Florence Bratenahl, first presi-
dent of the Herb Society of America,
whose efforts in the field have done
50 much to widen the interest and
understanding of the place of herbs
in the American garden and cuisine.
The author of the book grew up
In the Baltic countries, in a family
to which fine cooking was a ree.l
tradition, and she has brought all
her innate knowledge and feeling
for herbs to the pages of her de-
uehtful work
Her classification. definition and
description of herbs is one of the
best l have seen and her recipes,
deliciously unusual, are kitchen
tested by herself and her young
students. For good measure. there
are instructions on developing an
herb garden-WhiCh makes the book
as welcome to the gardener as to
the gourmet. Soft. sage-green COW
ers seem appropriate and charming.
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