Nela's Cookbook Rubinstein, Nela Cooking

Octavo, 397 pages. Stated first edition. Off-white boards with blue and red accents with light bumping. Firm binding; no loose pages. Foxed edges and lightly tanned pages. Dust jacket with rubbing, sunning, chips and small tears, plus a few small stains. A good usable copy. This is a large or heavy book and may require additional shipping charges to mail outside of the United States. From the jacket: "After years of producing superb meals for Maestro Arthur and their family and friends the world over, Nela Rubinstein has at last put down in this charming and inspiring cookbook her most coveted recipes, her refreshing thoughts on menus for all sorts of occasions, and her joyous memories of cooking for these she loves. Her style in the kitchen is a combination of the old-world Polish cooking on which she was raised with touches of the cuisines of France and Spain, where the Rubinsteins lived, and the easy American ways that she made her own during their years in California and New York." Aniela "Nela" Rubinstein (1909-2002) was theyoungest daughter of Emil Młynarski, the conductor and co-founder of the Warsaw Philharmonic. At just 18, she fell in love with and married the great pianist Arthur Rubinstein, who was twenty-two years older.