1 option
Auguste Escoffier, Memories of My Life / by Auguste Escoffier ; translated by Laurence Escoffier ; foreword by Ferdinand E. Metz ; preface by Pierre P. Escoffier ; introduction by Julia Child.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX649.E8 A3 1997
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Escoffier, A. (Auguste), 1846-1935.
- Standardized Title:
- Souvenirs inédits. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Escoffier, A. (Auguste), 1846-1935.
- Escoffier, A.
- Cooks--France--Biography.
- Cooks.
- France.
- Local Subjects:
- Escoffier, A. (Auguste), 1846-1935.
- Genre:
- recipes.
- Recipes.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xix, [1], 252 pages, [12] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (partly color), portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Distribution:
- New York : ITP A Division of International Thomson Publishing Inc.,
- Other Title:
- Memories of my life
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Ferdinand E. Metz
- Preface / Pierre P. Escoffier
- Julia Child on Escoffier
- Part One. First Experiences (1846-1870)
- Part Two. Rhine Army Chef (July-October 1870)
- Part Three. Defeat and Captivity (November 1870-August 1871)
- Part Four. An Era of Celebrities: Paris
- Monte Carlo
- Lucerne (1872-1889)
- Part Five. From the Savoy to the Ritz: London
- Rome
- Paris (1890-1898)
- Part Six. The Great Era of the Carlton: London (1899-1909)
- Part Seven. The Consecration: Works and Voyages (1909-1930)
- Appendix A. Notes Written by Escoffier Concerning His Third and Fourth Trips to America (1926 and 1930)
- Appendix B. Two Letters to Escoffier
- Appendix C. Escoffier's Handwritten Menus
- Appendix D. People in Escoffier's Life
- Chronology: The Life and Times of Auguste Escoffier.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 233) 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 bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Escoffier, A. (Auguste), 1846-1935. Souvenirs inédits. English. Auguste Escoffier, memories of my life.
- ISBN:
- 0442023960
- 9780442023966
- 0471288039
- 9780471288039
- OCLC:
- 34965514
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.