The Gentleman’s Companion 1946 An Exotic Cookery Book by Charles H. Baker Jr.

Hardcover/No Dust Jacket

First published in 1939, this is the first volume of Charles H. Baker Jr’s infamous two volume set, which serves as much a travel log  as it does a cookbook. And on another level it’s a time travel log to the mindsets of the period vis a vis gender, the concept of exoticism, all kinds of things.