On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

US original; the Scribner's 1984 New York edition is the true first. The first British edition is George Allen & Unwin, London, 1986 — a genuine separate edition (the book took the 1986 André Simon award) but subsequent to the US, and collected only as the first UK. FIRST-THUS TRAP: the 2004 Scribner "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Completely Revised and Updated" is a substantially rewritten book, not a reprint of 1984 — it is a first thus. The 2004 UK issue retitled McGee on Food & Cooking is likewise a separate first thus.