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Larousse Gastronomique : the encyclopedia of food, wine & cookery / by Prosper Montagné ; introductions by A. Escoffier and Ph. Gilbert ; edited by Charlotte Turgeon and Nina Froud.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX349 .M613 1961
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montagné, Prosper, 1864-1948.
- Standardized Title:
- Larousse gastronomique. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking--Dictionaries.
- Cooking.
- Food--Dictionaries.
- Food.
- Cooking, French.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Penn Provenance:
- Aresty, Esther B. (donor) (RBC copy)
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 1101 pages, [32] pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portrais ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Encyclopedia of food, wine & cookery
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., [1961]
- Contents:
- Prefaces by Auguste Escoffier and Philéas Gilbert
- Introduction to the English language edition
- Table of comparative measures
- Larousse Gastonomique A-Z.
- Notes:
- "1000 Illustrations Including Many in Full Color"
- Illustrated lining papers.
- First published in France by Augé, Gillon, Hollier-Larousse, Moreau et Cie (Librairie Larousse), Paris, 1938.
- Text translated from the French by Nina Froud, Patience Gray, Maud Murdoch and Barbara Macrae Taylor.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 1099-1101) and French index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008
- Kislak copy 1 has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy 1 has "Desk Copy Fritz Blank" written on half-title page.
- Kislak copy 1 has marginal marks and ms. annotations
- Kislak copy 1 has transparent tape at top of spine.
- Kislak copy 1 has three photocopies of page 911 laid in.
- Kislak copy 2 has bookplate of "Kitchen Copy" written in it.
- Kislak copy 2 has text partially disbound from cover.
- Kislak copy 2 has pages 5-12 completely disbound.
- Kislak copy 2 is "Sixth Printing February 1965".
- Kislak copy 2 has "Kitchen Copy" printed on top, fore-edge and tail.
- OCLC:
- 413918
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