Three-in-One Mold, 128
Tomato Omelet, 136
Tomatoes au Gratin, 125

Vatroushki, 111

Waffles, Cheese, 112

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York and summed them all up in this book.

Born in Chicago, he was graduated from Oak Park High School and entered the University of Wisconsin at the exact moment when a number of imported Swiss professors in this great dairy state began teaching their students how to hole an Emmentaler.

After majoring in beer and free lunch from Milwaukee to Munich, Bob celebrated the end of Prohibition with a book called Let There Be Beer! and then decided to write another about Beer’s best friend, Cheese.  But first he collaborated with his mother Cora and wife Rose on The Wine Cookbook, still in print after nearly twenty-five years.  This first manual on the subject in America paced a baker’s dozen food-and-drink books, including:  America Cooks, 10,000 Snacks, Fish and Seafood and The South American Cookbook.

For ten years he published his own weekly magazines in Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City and London.  In the decade before that, from 1907 to 1917, he wrote more than a thousand short stories and serials under his full name, Robert Carlton Brown.  One of his first books, What Happened to Mary, became a best seller and was the first five-reel movie.  This put him in Who’s Who in his early twenties.

In 1928 he retired to write and travel.  After a couple of years spent in collecting books and bibelots throughout the Orient, he settled down in Paris with the expatriate group of Americans and invented the Reading Machine for their delectation.  Nancy Cunard published his Words and Harry Crosby printed 1450-1950 at the Black Sun Press, while in Cagnes-sur-Mer Bob had his own imprint Roving Eye Press, that turned out Demonics; Gems, a Censored Anthology; Globe-gliding and Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine with contributions by Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Kay Boyle, James T. Farrell et al.

The depression drove him back to New York, but a decade later he returned to Brazil that had long been his home away from home.  There he wrote The Amazing Amazon, with his wife Rose, making a total of thirty books bearing his name.

After the death of his wife and mother, Bob Brown closed their mountain home in Petropolis, Brazil, and returned to New York where he remarried and now lives, in the Greenwich Village of his free-lancing youth.  With him came the family’s working library in a score of trunks and boxes, that formed the basis of a mail-order book business in which he specializes today in food, drink and other out-of-the-way items.