The Story of Champagne / Nicholas Faith ; illustrations by John Lawrence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faith, Nicholas.

Contributor:

Lawrence, John, 1933- illustrator.

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

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Champagne (Wine).

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

viii, 246, [2] pages, [16] unnumbered pages of black and white and color plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Hamish Hamilton, 1988.

Contents:

An Introduction to Champagne

Part I: The Story of Champagne. 1: Before the fizz; 2: Dom Pérignon: the myth, the man, and the problem; 3: What exactly was vin de champagne?; 4: Revolutions: political, commercial, technical; 5: Glory days; 6: War on three fronts: fraud, phylloxera and the Aube; 7: The price of peace, the cost of war; 8: The forces of change; 9: Capitalism à la Champenoise

Part II: The Making of Champagne. 10: The setting; 11: The crus; 12: The vines; 13: The harvest; 14: The wine; 15: A question of style; 16: The fizz; 17: And the tasting

Part III: The Facts about Champagne. 18: The statistics: sales of champagne, who buys champagne? the big champagne drinkers, how production has grown, how much the growers earn; 19: The CIVC and the law of champagne

Part IV: The Makers of Champagne. 20. The makers of champagne.

Notes:

Jacket illustration by John Lawrence.

Includes 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 bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0241123909 (cloth) :

9780241123904

OCLC:

59166564