Buy this book on-line BLANC, RAYMOND: : THE LOST ORCHARD. A French chef rediscovers a great British food heritage.Stories and recipesLONDON.HEADLINE HOME/An imprint of HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP,2019. ISBN 9781472267580.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around white background with colour pictorial artwork with gilt decoration by Claire Melinsky, illustrated dw/dj panels,with bright,crisp, blocked capitalised part-title and author name with black-lettered sub-title to front of dw/dj; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title+author name as the front's and publisher's colour illustrate colophon to foot of same, colour+gilt-decoorated vignette and other border edge illustrations with blocked gilt and black-lettered synopsis.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp, and clean without blemish/foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean/ unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering and decoration to spine/backstrip,a black+silver striped headband,and immaculate repeated pale grey endpapers with repeated multiple grey thumbnail illustrations to same. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xiipp+3-340pp [paginated] includes a Contents list/table,the author's Introduction,4 sections: Apples,Pears, Quince,Fig and Medlar,Stone Fruits - Apricots, Cherries,Peaches and Plums,plus advice on growing your own fruit tree and best trees for a garden,Recipes From the Lost Orchard,black illustrated chapter head+tail piece illustrations and other thumbnail black illustration interspersed throughout the text and the book,8pp contemporary colour photographs in 1 block,between pp148/49,Acknowledgements,a Recipes Index and a genral index; plus [unpaginated] b/w wood-cut-style vignetted half-title,a title page,epigrams (2 - Raymond Blanc and Sue Biggs - Director-General of Royal Horticultural Society),a b/w illustrated Contents,Introduction and other sections' separator pages.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. Over the past seven years,Raymond Blanc has planted on orchard of 2,500 trees in the grounds of his hotel-restaurant,Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat'Saiasons in Oxfordshire. Yielding about 30 tonnes of fruit for his kitchen each year,it is full of ancient and forgotten varieties of British apples, pears and stone fruit.A further 600 heritage fruit trees have been added from Raymond's home region of France-Comte in France. 'The Lost Orchard' is a love letter to each of those varities,complete with beautiful illustrations,fascinating stories and delicious recipes.Lacing the whole book together is Raymond's infectious enthusiasm and passion for his beloved orchard,backed up by his desire for more of us to grow our own food.His stories and memories are a delight as he rejoices in the precious fruit of the 'lost orchard' that he has created in a little corner of the Oxfordshire countryside.
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