Dining With My Friends

New York: Crown Publishers, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards. Very good, in fair dust wrapper. 292 pages. 21.5 x 14.5. cm. This copy was a gift from Ann Seranne, a food consultatnt and former editor at Gourmet magazine to Doreen Feng Bedell, the best-selling cookbook author of The Joy of Chinese Cooking. Signed on the front free end paper: 10/24/55 To Doreen - Who should have known - and would have loved Crosby Gaige Anne Seranne. A post card is laid in addressed to Doreen Badell. Seranne, a good friend of Gaige's was featured in this book on page 207-210. Gaige, a theatrical producer, writer, printer and binder, cattle breeder, and most notably gourmet and cook, presents his favorite meals, including menus, recipes and the famous people he dined with. Luminaries such as Merle Armitage, James Montgomery Flagg, Andre Simon, add their treasured recipes - an all around who's who of the artists, editors, and captains of industry during the 1920's through the 1940's. Clean copy. Dust wrapper chipped with major tears and splits.