"Len Deighton's Action Cook Book" 1967 Deighton, Len

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DEIGHTON, Len

[256] pp.

Penguin Books

1967

7 3/4" x 5 1/8"

Cover design by Raymond Hawkey

The Action Cook … Read more DEIGHTON, Len

[256] pp.

Penguin Books

1967

7 3/4" x 5 1/8"

Cover design by Raymond Hawkey

The Action Cook Book’ was once an instructional book for the bachelor male – a guide to sophisticated cooking for the would-be Harry Palmer. It now has a great following as a fabulous piece of nostalgia as well as retaining real credibility as a genuinely useful cook book.

If you need to create the basic wine cellar (basic to Len Deighton – decidedly aspirational to the rest of us), or to learn how to cook full-bodied meals with a seductive touch (how could you resist brain soufflé? – ‘brains are a very good constituent for a souffle. They are delicious fried, or in any of the piquant wine sauces’), then this is the book for you. See less