Mazza, Irma Goodrich

First UK edition. 305pp., in original attractively decorated dust-wrapper. Lacks f.e.p., else a very good clean copy in a dust-wrapper just a little worn at edges. First published in the USA in 1957 by the author of ‘Herbs for the Kitchen’. When Irma Goodrich married her Italian descent husband in California in 1925, he couldn’t eat her ‘American’ food. “Irma’s solution was practical: she would learn to cook Italian “. She went on to became a popular and successful writer of cookery books.