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The Downright Epicure: Essays on Edward Bunyard

✍️ Wilson, Edward
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🏛 Prospect Books (UK) 📅 2007 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9781903018484

📝 Description: The Downright Epicure: Essays on Edward Bunyard

Edward Ashdown Bunyard (1878-1939) was England's foremost pomologist (student of apples). He wrote all about the charm of apples.

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This edition is notably sparse in its external description, offering little insight into the specific essays contained within. It is strictly for scholars of pomology or those with a deep interest in Edward Ashdown Bunyard’s life. Casual readers seeking engaging narratives or practical culinary advice will find it dry and inaccessible. The tone appears academic rather than entertaining, focusing on historical documentation over lively storytelling. Those who do not care about apple varieties or early twentieth-century British horticulture should avoid this title entirely. It is a niche historical resource, not a general interest cookbook.
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This edition is notably sparse in its external description, offering little insight into the specific essays contained within. It is strictly for scholars of pomology or those with a deep interest in Edward Ashdown Bunyard’s life. Casual readers seeking engaging narratives or practical culinary advice will find it dry and inaccessible. The tone appears academic rather than entertaining, focusing on historical documentation over lively storytelling. Those who do not care about apple varieties or early twentieth-century British horticulture should avoid this title entirely. It is a niche historical resource, not a general interest cookbook.

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