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Vittles and vice : an extraordinary guide to what's cooking on Chicago's Near North Side / Patricia Bronté, illustrated by Franklin McMahon.
LIBRA - Blank Collection F548.5 .B67 1952 Blank copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bronté, Patricia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chicago (Ill.)--Description and travel.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Cooking, American.
- Restaurants--Illinois--Chicago.
- Restaurants.
- Travel.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 191, [1] pages illustrations 22 cm
- 8vo.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1952.
- Summary:
- A tour of the food and fables of Chicago's Near North Side, including its legendary restaurants and a choice selection of their most secret recipes.
- Contents:
- Eclaircissement
- Aladdin's Alley
- Silver Threads among the Gold Coast
- The Speak-Easy Saint: Adolph's
- Concerto on a Tablecloth: Agostino's
- Streeterville: Billion-Dollar Dump Heap
- Love of the Old Mansion: Armando's
- Life is Like a Consommé: Café de Paris
- Ben Marshall and The Drake Hotel
- Garlic is Chanel No. 5: Camellia House
- Get Your Civvies & Come Aboard: Cape Cod Room
- The Mob Flexes Its Muscle
- Melody in a Minor Key: Caruso's
- History That's Made at Night
- The Search for "Chicago's Great Soul"
- Romance on the Menu: Chez Paul
- The Evolution of Poncino Charlie's: Eric Café
- 110 Candles for Bughouse Square
- The Case of the Vanishing Gourmet: Imperial House
- The Lady in the Lobster: Ireland's
- Leonardo in a Laundromat
- Recipe for a Newsbeat: Isbell's
- The Legacy of "Hot Stove Jimmy" Quinn
- Eat-And Ge Glamorous: Le Petit Gourmet
- The Man Who Loves the Mona Lisa: Club Mona Lisa
- Across from the Old Water Tower: Normandy House
- All the Nude That's Fit to Squint
- What Happened on the "Woman in Black"?: Pub & Prow
- Byfield and the Ambassadors
- The Street of Missing Persons
- The Nags Would Never Know It Now: Radio Club
- A Natural Harbor for River-Boat Jazz
- Prince Henry Ate Here: Red Star Inn
- $14 Million-Sight Unseen
- Lord of the Left Bank: Riccardo's
- The Pied Piper of Rush Street: Singapore
- The Lake Dwellers
- A Race Horse Gets a Lucky Name: Tradewinds
- Scholar in the Kitchen: Wrigley Bldg. Restaurant
- Rubloff and the Magnificent Mile
- Guide for Gourmets.
- Notes:
- "First Printing, December 1952. Second Printing, December 1952."
- Black cloth covered boards with title embossed on front cover and lettered in silver on spine. Illustrated linng papers.
- Local Notes:
- 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 with protective transparent cover.
- Kislak copy is "Second Printing".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bronté, Patricia. Vittles and vice.
- OCLC:
- 2501142
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