At 10s. 6d. the hardback edition of
the book seems and indeed was
cheap enough by today’s standards
but at the time was quite an outlay.
The paperback was to be 2s. 6d., a
price within the reach of nearly
everybody. Children could and did
buy the paperback for their
parents. More important, in 1954
food rationing had at last come to
an end, and apart from Bee
Nilson’s The ABC of Cookery
published during the war, there
was no other paperback cookery
book on the market. My book had
been given a dazzling opportunity.
It was mainly, I learned, through
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