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(Cocktails) Baker, Charles H., Jr. The South American Gentleman's Companion: Volume I Being an Exotic Cookery Book, Volume II Being an Exotic Drinking Book. 2 vols. cooking Written by undernourished and starvingBlue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slipcase. First Edition. NY: Crown Publishers, 1951. The scarcer follow up to Baker's 1946 set, The Gentleman's Companion, with South American food and drink like the tropical orchid cocktail, orange paradise cocktail, Bogota blackjack cocktail, baked giant smelts, coq du Barsac, lomitos de carne, etc. Written in prose, including recipes, with historical and cultural references and anecdotes. A touch of sunning to
