Kitchen Essays - With Recipes and their Occasions

Slight fade and minor crease to spine, good secondhand condition.

The author of Kitchen Essays (1922) was sister-in-law to the great Gertrude Jekyll, whose biographer wrote that if she 'was an artist-gardener, then Agnes was an artist-housekeeper.' Agnes was a famous hostess (the guests at her first dinner party included Browning, Ruskin and Burne-Jones) and her home, Munstead House, 'was the apogee of opulent comfort and order without grandeur, smelling of pot-pourri furniture polish and wood smoke'. During 1921-22 Lady Jekyll wrote unsigned essays for The Times with titles such as Tray Food and Sunday Supper...