Dining With Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Cookbook [Paperback]

Julia C. Rosenblatt (Author), Fredric H. Sonnenschmidt (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0823212718 | ISBN-13: 978-0823212712 | Publication Date: January 1, 1993 | Edition: 1

Presents recipes for dishes served in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes.

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About the Author

Both Julie C. Rosenblatt and Fredric H. Sonnenschmidt are respected Sherlockians of long standing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 287 pages
• Publisher: Fordham University Press; 1 edition (January 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823212718
• ISBN-13: 978-0823212712
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,188,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious deductive reasoning!, February 11, 2001

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Ethel Grimes ""book nerd"" (Bakersfield, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dining With Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Cookbook (Paperback)

The first time I found a copy of this book, I was most pleasantly surprised! I never even knew such a cookbook existed. As a lover of both Sherlock Holmes and British food, I am happy to add "Dining With Sherlock Holmes" to my collection of Sherlockian literature and numerous cookbooks.

Among other scrumptious items, I found a recipe for potato pancakes that I tried for Chanukah with perfect results!

I highly recommend "Dining With Sherlock Holmes"---and if you're not a Sherlock Holmes fan, this book just might "convert" you!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For true Sherlock junkies!, June 5, 2011

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Anne Belle (Kansas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dining With Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Cookbook (Paperback)

While I myself have at times read Sherlock Holmes stories for my own amusement, my significant other is a die-hard, obsessive fan of the stories . . . he also happens to love to cook. I bought him this book for his birthday, and he became immediately absorbed in it. Not only are the recipes authentic to the time period, but the authors are stellar scholars of the world of Sherlock Holmes. The scene and quotations referenced in the book are extremely detailed and will delight those who are fully immersed in the world of Baker Street. Others (like myself) will find the details to be too minute and tedious. For those who would appreciate historically accurate recipes coupled with commentary on the world of Sherlock Holmes and British hisory/customs, this is the perfect book.

7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Food for Thought (and Murder), December 3, 1998

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This review is from: Dining With Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Cookbook (Paperback)

This is one cookbook that you can actually read! Besides the tempting recipes, there is a lot of other information to digest. As to the recipes themselves, some are quite simple, others are much more elaborate. I found the relating of the recipes to Sherlock Holmes mysteries to be the real treat of the book.