Day: February 4, 2021

Classic Cookbooks: The James Beard Cookbook

The James Beard Cookbook is probably the best-known work of the Dean of American Cookery (later Gastronomy), but it is not, according to his most recent biographer John Birdsall, his best. That honor would go to Delights And Prejudices, Beard’s 1964 memoir—not of things that happened to him, but things he ate. That book begins: