London: Prospect Books
• Foreword written by Ayesha Curry
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in all its brilliant harmony of scents and flavors
This book chronicles the great recipes of the Christian Escribà
(Victorian) Thomas Murrey. 50 Salads. Midwestern London: Prospect BooksCloth backed chromolithograph boards. NY: White, Stokes & Allen, 1885. A lovely volume in a series of 10 little cookbooks by Thomas Murrey. Murrey was a professional caterer at the Astor House, and later owned a restaurant in Washington, D. C. A few of the 50 salads represented here are scollop salad, rabbit salad, sardine salad, pineapple salad, mayonnaise of eels, frog salad, orange salad, pigeon salad, cray fish salad, hop salad, and much more.