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A Seasoned Chef : recipes and remembrances from the chef and former co-owner of New York's famous Le Cirque restaurant / Jean Vergnes.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX719 .V49 1987
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LIBRA - Rare TX719 .V49 1987 Malgieri copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vergnes, Jean, 1921-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, French.
- Vergnes, Jean, 1921-2010.
- Vergnes, Jean.
- Cooks--United States--Biography.
- Cooks.
- United States.
- Le Cirque (Restaurant).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (inscription) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Vergnes, Jean, 1921-2010 (autograph) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (inscription) (stamp)
- Vergnes, Jean, 1921-2010 (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- xvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 250 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits. ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Donald I. Fine, Inc., [1987]
- Contents:
- Foreword / Pierre Franey
- The Opening of Le Cirque Restaurant
- Apprenticeship
- Journeymanship
- The Colony
- Commercial Ventures
- The Weekend Feasts with Chefs and Friends
- At Le Cirque Restaurant
- Epilogue: The Future of Cuisine.
- Notes:
- "Design by Stanley S. Drate/Folio Graphics Co., Inc."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Malgieri Collection copy inscribed "3/21/1992 Dear Nick. With warm regards culinarirement. Jean Vergnes".
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate and handwritten bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has embossed stamp "FCB Library of Fritz Blank".
- Kislak copy inscribed "4/25/1990 To Fritz Blank. A nice gentleman and great chef. With warm regard. Cooking is fun. Jean Vergnes".
- ISBN:
- 1556110618
- 9781556110610
- OCLC:
- 16871883
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