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Beverley Nichols Autobiographical Books: Down the Kitchen Sink & Green Grows the City
Beverley Nichols
Sink: Hardcover, 202 pages; 2006 (1974)
City: Hardcover, 290 pages; 2006 (1939)
 Members' Price (UE4492): $21.21
Part memoir and part cookbook, Down the Kitchen Sink takes on the culinary world with Beverley Nichols's signature wit and style. Fans of Nichols's earlier works will be thrilled to learn that the first half of this book focuses on Nichols's "gentleman's gentleman" Gaskin, whom none other than P. G. Wodehouse described as the perfect Jeeves. The second half of the volume relates the post-Gaskin years, when Nichols, who didn't know how to boil an egg, learns to navigate the kitchen himself. Green Grows the City presents the cleverly biting and charmingly funny story of Nichols's London garden--with all the inherent frustrations and triumphs--in the pre-World War II years. Both autobiographical books offer practical tidbits (on cooking and gardening, respectively) and are engaging literary treats from yesteryear!
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