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The gourmands' way : six Americans in Paris and the birth of a new gastronomy / Justin Spring.
Van Pelt Library TX649.A1 S675 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spring, Justin, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food writers--United States--Biography.
- Food writers.
- Food writing.
- United States.
- France--Paris.
- Cooks--United States--Biography.
- Cooks.
- Food writing--France--Paris.
- Cooking--Biography.
- Food in literature.
- Paris (France)--Social life and customs.
- Local Subjects:
- Cooking--Biography.
- Food in literature.
- Cooks.
- Paris (France)--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 433 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017]
- Summary:
- Describes the lives of six Americans who wrote extensively about food and wine as they traveled, explored, immersed themselves in culture, and struggled with their writing careers in France between 1945 and 1974.
- Contents:
- Liebling and the Lion of Belfort
- The Franco-American (kitchen) alliance
- Alice Toklas starts over
- Gourmet, Brillat-Savarin and Paris cuisine
- Out on the town with Paul and Julia
- Richard Olney starts out
- Becoming Julia Child
- "As if a cook book had anything to do with writing"
- "I am a merchant of pleasure"
- Aromas and flavors of past and present
- "A dreamer of wine"
- A changing of the guard
- Olney stays on
- M. F. K. Fisher and the cooking of Provincial France
- Olney in the Var
- The end of the affair.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374103156
- 0374103151
- OCLC:
- 968639385
- Publisher Number:
- 40027547758
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