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The French at Table : why the French know how to eat better than any people on earth and how they have gone about it, from the Gauls to Paul Bocuse / Rudolph Chelminski.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX637 .C44 1985
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LIBRA - Rare TX637 .C44 1985 Malgieri copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chelminski, Rudolph.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gastronomy--History.
- Gastronomy.
- History.
- Food supply--France--History.
- Food supply.
- Dinners and dining--France--History.
- Dinners and dining.
- Cooking, French--History.
- Cooking, French.
- France.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Graves, Ralph, 1924-2013 (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Graves, Eleanor (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Chelminski (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 276 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1985]
- Contents:
- Dammit, the store are always closed here at lunchtime ...
- Barbarian to Gourmet in a few easy centuries
- Growing Up: The Intemperate Nineteenth Century
- The Holy Trinity: Point, Pic and Dumaine
- Paul, Pierre, Michel and the Cooking called New
- The devotion of the long-distance eater
- Reaching for the stars
- Flour power
- On becoming social, intellectual, educated, recreative, sporting and cultural: The many benefits to be derived from drinking great quantities of Beaujolais
- Eating cheap and eating excessively dear
- The women.
- Notes:
- "First Edition."
- "Book design by Ann Gold."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed "For Ralph & Eleanor-- who know all about this, anyway. Bon appetit! Rudolph" on half-title.
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- 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:
- 068804459X :
- 9780688044596
- OCLC:
- 12050310
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