The Chicken Book / Page Smith & Charles Daniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Page.

Daniel, Charles, 1933- author.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chickens.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (stamp)

Physical Description:

x, [2], 380, [6] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : North Point Press, 1982.

Contents:

Part One. 1. The origin(s) of the chicken; 2. The global chicken; 3. Aldrovandi; 4. The cock; 5. Cockfighting; 6. Cockfighting continued; 7. The chicken apothecary; 8. The "folk" chicken

Part Two. 9. The hen and her egg; 10. The egg and the chick; 11. The century of the chicken; 12. The decline of the chicken; 13. The industrialization of the chicken; 14. The fall of the chicken (and almost everything else); 15. On keeping chickens; 16. The culinary chicken (and egg).

Notes:

First published by Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1975.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-374) and index.

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 handwritten bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has embossed stamp "FCB Library of Fritz Blank".

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0865470677 (paper) :

9780865470675

OCLC:

20529198