The Constance Spry Cookery Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Constance Spry Cookery Book write by Constance Spry. This book was released on 2014-01-19. The Constance Spry Cookery Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the all-time great cookbooks receives a lavish update and remains an essential resource and inspiration for cooks of all levels. One of the greatest cookbooks of all time, The Constance Spry Cookery Book remains an essential kitchen bible: astonishingly informative, supremely practical, and constantly at-hand for countless home cooks and future top chefs for over fifty years. With over a thousand pages filled with recipes, cooking history, and miraculous tips, this indispensable resource has now been updated and elegantly redesigned with specially commissioned how-to line drawings. Cooks of every level will find invaluable information on kitchen processes, soups and sauces, vegetables, meat, poultry, game, cold dishes, and pastry making. This timeless treasure is “a monument to ‘civilised living’ . . . If you can’t find a recipe for something anywhere else, it will be in Constance Spry” (The Guardian). “Cookery is vast, detailed, and lovely. The purpose of the book was to take the knowledge of culinary professionals and write it in a form that British housewives could understand and use. It was, and it remains, the British cookery [and cooking] bible.” —Cooking by the Book
The Surprising Life of Constance Spry
The Surprising Life of Constance Spry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Surprising Life of Constance Spry write by Sue Shephard. This book was released on 2010-11-30. The Surprising Life of Constance Spry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fascinating ... to be eagerly devoured’ Clarissa Dickson-Wright Most people today, if they have heard of her, associate Constance Spry with the cookery book bearing her name. But Connie was much, much more than the author of a bestselling cookery book. She was deeply unconventional, extremely charming and very determined; Spry’s life took her from the back streets of Victorian Derby to running a hugely successful business as the florist of choice for the highest of high society, organizing the flowers for royal weddings and indeed for the Queen's coronation. She endured a violent first marriage, had a lesbian affair with a cross-dressing artist and was a pioneer for working women at a time when few women had careers. Sue Shephard tells her extraordinary story with insight, wit and flair. 'Riveting.’ Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall ‘Makes you fall utterly in love with its subject’ New York Times Magazine ‘Reveals with the greatest skill and sympathy an extraordinary person - complicated, driven, sometimes secretive but gifted and artistic to an nth degree. What a story.' Elizabeth Buchan
Flower Decoration
Flower Decoration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flower Decoration write by Constance Spry. This book was released on 1992. Flower Decoration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "House and Garden has recently called Constance Spry "the first superstar florist": her heyday in England lasted from the late 1920's through the '50s, during which she arranged flowers for Elsie de Wolfe, for Wallis Simpson's wedding to the Duke of Windsor, and for Elizabeth II's coronation. But what will most endear her to today's American flower lovers is her propensity for breaking rules." "Unorthodox arrangements in alternative containers were her trademark; she fearlessly utilized anything of beauty. "Perhaps," she writes, "a leaf from the vegetable garden attracts your attention, or a spray of ripe fruit. You don't stop to think that this material is labelled, so to speak, 'for eating'; you realize it is decorative, and that is enough; it suits your purpose and you use it."" "Decrying "tame vases of flowers", she mixed blooms - a fairly daring practice in her day - in order to achieve "the thrill of the beholder" that the Dutch and Flemish achieved with their still-lifes. She reacted most of all against the imposition of arbitrary rules on an activity she felt should be spontaneous and alive. She felt "strongly that the art of flower arrangement should be a means of self-expression for everyone and that nobody should be afraid to express his feeling for color and line through this medium."" "Flower Decoration reveals Constance Spry to be an English rebel with a cause and a chatty style. This, her first book, has been long out of print: it will be greeted with appreciation by today's sophisticated gardeners who, along with everyone interested in home decor, will love what HG has called her "lush, funky style". The time has come to reintroduce Constance Spry to America."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
A Book for Cooks
A Book for Cooks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Book for Cooks write by Leslie Geddes-Brown. This book was released on 2012. A Book for Cooks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stylish compendium of 100 of the world's best cookery books, from the seventeenth century to the present day.
The Constance Spry Cookery Book
The Constance Spry Cookery Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Constance Spry Cookery Book write by Constance Spry. This book was released on 1958. The Constance Spry Cookery Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
