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A Pike in the Basement : tales of a hungry traveller / Simon Loftus. Wood engravings by Jonathan Gibbs.
LIBRA TX725.A1 L64 1989
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LIBRA - Blank Collection TX725.A1 L64 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loftus, Simon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International cooking.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 142, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : North Point Press, 1989.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Harvest Lunch
- Tartufo
- Zestó: Mastering the Art of Eating Hot Food in Greece
- Bullet and Smashed Homelettes
- Vodka and Oranges: A Winter's Tale
- The Midnight Bakery
- Fried Eggs and Chapatis
- Gently Steaming
- Shoot a Sheep for Breakfast
- Saturday Night at the Movies
- White River Catfish
- Casino Cuisine: Testing the Ritz
- Room with a View
- Dog's Dinner
- In Praise of Pigs
- A Pike in the Basement.
- Notes:
- "This edition published by special arrangement with the publisher."--Title-page verso.
- Reprint. Originally published: London : Century, 1987.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0865473951 :
- OCLC:
- 248889033
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