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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.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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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