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Provence, 1970 : M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the reinvention of American taste / Luke Barr.
LIBRA TX715 .B3417 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barr, Luke.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.
- Child, Julia.
- Jones, Judith, 1924-2017.
- Beard, James, 1903-1985.
- Olney, Richard.
- Olney, Richard--Homes and haunts--France--Provence.
- Cooking, American--History--20th century.
- Cooking, American--Philosophy.
- Cooking, American.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- Provence (France)--Biography.
- Provence (France)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- France.
- France--Provence.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, [2013]
- Summary:
- Presents a dramatic account of the 1970 gathering in Provence where such culinary luminaries as James Beard and Julia Child debated and inadvertently launched the modern food movement in America.
- Contents:
- All alone : December 20, 1970
- Ten weeks earlier
- En Route to provence
- An epic dinner with Richard Olney
- First meals in France
- La Pitchoune, country retreat
- James Beard's doomed diet
- Paris interlude
- A dinner party at the Childs'
- Sexual politics
- Twilight of the snobs
- Escape
- The ghost of Arles and Avignon
- Christmas and Réveillon
- Going home
- Last house
- New beginnings
- Provence now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0307718344
- 9780307718341
- 9780770433314
- 0770433316
- OCLC:
- 841198112
- Publisher Number:
- 99956219645
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