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The Gentleman\'s Companion EXOTIC COOKERY BOOK & EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK ( combined volume I and II in one book)Author: Charles H. Baker Jr.Number of pages: 220 (1st volume), 217 (2nd volume)Publisher: Crown Publishing Group.Charles Henry Baker, Jr.(December 25, 1895 - November 11, 1987) was anAmericanauthor best known for his culinary and cocktail writings.These books have become highly collectible among cocktail aficionados and culinary historians. Baker spent much of his life traveling the world and chronicling food and drink recipes for magazines likeEsquire,Town & Country, andGourmet, for which he wrote a column during the 1940s called \"Here\'s How\".Baker collected many of those recipes in his two-volume setThe Gentleman\'s Companion:Being an Exotic Cookery and Drinking Book, originally published in 1939 byDerrydale Press.John J. Poister in 1983 wrote, \"Volume II ofThe Gentleman\'s Companion, by Charles H. Baker, Jr., is the best book on exotic drinks I have ever encountered\".Condé Nastcontributing writer St. John Frizell wrote, \"It\'s his prose, not his recipes, that deserves a place in thecanonof culinary literature ... at times humorously grandiloquent, at times intimate and familiar, Baker fills his stories with colorful details about his environment and his drinking companions.Ernest HemingwayandWilliam Faulkneramong them\".Please view photos and thank you for looking.