209 pages, indexed. The jacket suffers from minor loss at the head and tail, the body of the book is immaculate. First published in 1955, and reprinted twice, this is a second edition, revised and enlarged. Summary of a paper presented by Donna Lee Brien at Central Queensland University. "This paper discusses the cookbooks written by Australian food writer, Maria Kozslik Donovan. A prominent advocate of Continental and Asian cookery in Melbourne in the 1950s, Donovan wrote and illustrated a number of very popular cookery books. This article profiles her cookbooks - Continental cookery in Australia (1955); Epicure's corner: world recipes (1956); The Far Eastern epicure (1958); The Blue Danube cookbook (1967); and, Astrology in the kitchen (1971) - in the context of her international career as a food writer."