A food lover's companion
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: A food lover's companion
Classmark: Cookery Bateman A/JON
Creator(s): Jones, Evan (1915-1996)
Publisher: Harper & Row
Publication city: New York
Date(s): c1979
Language: English
Size and medium: xxiv, 389 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/371711
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005200849705181
Collection group(s): Cookery Collection
Description
Includes index.
1 Country Pleasures -- 2 Moveable Feasts -- 3 Wolf at the Door -- 4 Worth a Special Journey -- 5 Cookery Is Become an Art -- 6 Chefs de Cuisine -- 7 Hosts and Hostesses -- 8 Potpourri - Garlic -- 9 Epicurean Seductions -- 10 Consuming Passions -- 11 A New Creation Glows! -- 12 Gastronomic Extravaganzas.
Includes good writing (excerpts, quotes, maxims, poems, etc.) about food by M.F.K. Fisher, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Voltaire, Euell Gibbons, Auguste Escoffier, James Beard, Guy de Maupassant, Madhur Jaffrey, Simone Beck, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Frank, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, George Orwell, Willa Cather, Marcella Hazan, Marcel Proust, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Herman Melville, Chef Louis Diat, Ovid, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, Julia Child, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Woody Allen, Craig Claiborne, etc. Also includes information on peas, oysters, fish, mushrooms, wild boar, Trinidad, picnics, Himalayas, dining car, hunger, soup line, Oregon Trail, Mutiny on the Bounty, beans, prison diet, pressed duck, awarding of the stars, Antarctica, bread, Southern fried chicken, Fannie Farmer, medieval chefs, Crepes Suzette, sauce, Troisgros Pere, goose, setting the table, Andrew Jackson, Virginia hospitality, caviar, butter, bride cake, breakfast, snails, garlic, cocoa, bouillabaisse,
marrowbone, beer, hoppinʼ john, rice, apple pie, hamburgers, cheeses, crème vichyssoise, toast melba, Caesar salad, cereal, lobster, roast buffalo, Diamond Jim Brady, Lillian Russell, etc.
Additional description
Author's presentation inscription to Heather and Michael [Bateman] on front free enpaper.
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