How to Cook a Wolf

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 261pp. Octavo [22 cm] Gray cloth over boards with a white ink stamped title on the backstrip and a white ink stamped wolf vignette on the front board. Handful of minor small stains to the edges of the text block. Extremities a bit toned, rubbed, and bumped. In a worn price-clipped dust jacket, with rubbing, and intermittent small losses from the edges and folds. The author's third book. An American cookery book written to inspire courage to those in the midst of wartime shortages. One of the great prose stylists of the 20th century, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908-1992) wrote almost exclusively about food, and so never achieved mainstream literary recognition. Food, however, is never just food, and Fisher’s delectable and penetrating work speaks directly to the human experience.

From the dust jacket-

"It is extraordinarily entertaining and practical, a guide to the art of living happily and well- even though close to starvation."

A first edition of an early work by one of the most celebrated food writers in history. (Inventory #: 69563)