sentences:  Condé Nast contributing writer St. John Frizell wrote, "It's his prose, not his recipes, that deserves a place in the canon of culinary literature ... at times humorously grandiloquent, at times intimate and familiar, Baker fills his stories with colorful details about his environment and his drinking companions — Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner among them".While his culinary nonfiction garnered Baker much praise, he was less well regarded as a novelist.His only novel, "Blood of the Lamb", was published in 1946 by Rinehart & Company.