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French Lessons : adventures with knife, fork, and corkscrew / Peter Mayle.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX637 .M39 2001b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayle, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gastronomy.
- Dinners and dining--France.
- Dinners and dining.
- France--Social life and customs.
- France.
- Manners and customs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- ix, [1], 227, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Distribution:
- New York : Distributed by Random House,
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
- Contents:
- Hors d'Oeuvre
- The Inner Frenchman
- For What We Are About to Receive
- The Thigh-Tasters of Vittel
- Aristocrats with Blue Feet
- Love at First Sniff
- Slow Food
- Undressing for Lunch
- A Connoisseur's Marathon
- Among Flying Corks in Burgundy
- Rendezvous in a Muddy Field
- A Civilized Purge
- The Guided Stomach
- Last Course.
- Notes:
- This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf.
- With 12 line drawings by Ruth Marten. Jacket illustration by Ruth Marten.
- 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 bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0375405909 (cloth) :
- OCLC:
- 46863289
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