Lot #93: Pearl S. Buck's Oriental Cookbook: Collection of the Best Dishes From Asia by America's Best Loved Nobel Prize Winner (1972) - FIRST PRINTING

This cookbook is a compilation of recipes from various Asian countries, including Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, India, Pakistan, China, the Philippines, Indochina, Korea, Malaysia, and Japan by Pearl S. Buck, America's great Nobel Prize novelist. She spent her childhood in China and, after her college years in the United States, returned there to live. From the very beginning, she preferred Chinese to Western cooking, and considered Asian cuisine the best in the world. Literary background: In 1931, her second novel, The Good Earth was published and became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and was adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl S. Buck won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. Hardcover book. FIRST PRINTING. Measurements: Approximately 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Pickup category timeslot {A}