Item #27370 Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices. Food History, Elizabeth David.

Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices.

New York: Viking Press, 1995. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with a remainder stripe to the bottom edge in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. At the time of Elizabeth David's death in 1992 she was working on this epic study of the use of ice, the ice-trade and the early days of refrigeration. This is the marvelous story of how human beings came to ingest lumps of flavoured frozen matter for pleasure. But there is much, much more - about the making and breaking of reputations, the founding of Parisian café culture, the great and rivalrous confectioners of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century London, about Russian ice-cream (surprisingly superior) and Persian sherbets ... sumptuous. Item #27370

Price: $100.00

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