The Lord Peter Wimsey Cookbook

By William J. Eakins and Elizabeth Bond Ryan

Book Overview

Great cookbook This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899190324
• ISBN13: 9780899190327
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Nice concept, but I would not want to eat this stuff.

The idea behind this book is unique. Taking passages out of Lord Peter Wimsey novels and turns them into practical cooking. You get the added fun of remembering the passages and feeling that you are one of the company. There are no slang recipes such as Spotted Dick or Toad in a Hole. These people are too sophisticated for that sort of thing. However, what may have proved to be a good recipe is expanded into the exotic. I did find one I could make without buying things like kidneys, PIPER'S PARRITCH: "In general, porridge is not a regular feature of Lord Peter's breakfast table, although he does on occasion, 'tak' a bit o' paritch' with his eggs and bacon while on holiday in Scotland (Five Red Herrings)." In chapter 4, "An Orgy of Teas," just about every recipe from cookies to sandwiches requires an inordinate amount of butter. "The lord Peter Wimsey Cookbook" does make a nice coffee-table conversation book.