The Henri Charpentier Cookbook; recipes and memoirs of the world-famed French chef who created Crêpes Suzette / Henri Charpentier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charpentier, Henri, 1880-1961.

Contributor:

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):

Charpentier, Henri, 1880-1961.

Charpentier, Henri.

Cooking, French.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

414 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, [8] unnumbered leaves of color plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Price, Stern, Sloan Publishers, Inc., [1970]

Contents:

Chapter I. What is Life?

Chapter II. The Three Devils. The Incorrigible Henri

Chapter III. The Eggs Are Not All in One Basket

Chapter IV. Life in the Holy Water. A New Sherlock

Chapter V. Wooden Shoes for Our Cats. A New Christian

Chapter VI. The Foreman of the Stable

Chapter VII. Honesty is the Best Policy. The Two Nests

Chapter VIII. A Stranger in the Chicken's Nest

Chapter IX. Badou Lived Up to His Title

Chapter X. The Magic of a Sweet Old Lady. Too Many Pears

Chapter XI. A Hat for Fannie, the Mule

Chapter XII. The Lion Tamer

Chapter XIII. Papa Camous Keeps His Promise

Chapter XIV. The Banker of the Village

Chapter XV. The End of a Beautiful Life

Chapter XVI. An English Plum Pudding in Contes. Only the Memory and the Old Hat of Fannie Remain

Chapter XVII. A Great Surprise for Monsieur Draghui. My Departure from Contes and My Arrival at the Cap Martin

Chapter XVIII. My First Night in the Castle of Kings. My Initiation

Chaper XIX. How I Met Queen Victoria. A Fairyland in the Eyes of Little Henri

Chapter XX. The Page Boy Banker Without a Bank. Another Midase Who Changed Silver to Gold

Chapter XXI. One Royal Evening

Chapter XXII. Money Makes Money. A Jack Among Four Queens

Chapter XXIII. The End of the Season. My Happy Return Home

Henri Specials.

Notes:

Originally published privately in 1945 under title: Food and finesse; the bride's bible.

"Book design - Bernard Nagler."

Text printed on different color pages. The memoirs are printed on light brown paper, the recipes on white paper.

Title page has facsimile of autograph of Henri Chapentier.

Blue cloth boards lettered in gold on spine with gold signature on front cover. Brown lining papers.

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.

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.

OCLC:

114210