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Burgundy Stars : a year in the life of a great French restaurant / William Echikson.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX649.L65 E27 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Echikson, William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loiseau, Bernard, 1951-2003.
- Loiseau, Bernard.
- La Côte d'Or (Restaurant).
- Cooks--France--Biography.
- Cooks.
- Burgundy (France)--Social life and customs.
- Burgundy (France).
- Manners and customs.
- France.
- France--Burgundy.
- Genre:
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- [2], xiv, 311, [7] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1995.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Chapter One. Shooting for Stars
- Chapter Two. Rags to Riches
- Chapter Three. Falling to Earth
- Chapter Four. Slow Civilization
- Chapter Five. The Michelin Mystique
- Chapter Six. Nouvelle Cuisine
- Chapter Seven. Grand Ambitions
- Chapter Eight. Heavenly Nectar
- Chapter Nine. Kitchen Drama
- Chapter Ten. The Most Pungent Cheese
- Chapter Eleven. The Battle for Frogs
- Chapter Twelve. The Triumph
- Chapter Thirteen. Flying High
- Chapter Fourteen. Flying Higher
- Chapter Fifteen. A New Burgundy Star
- Epilogue. A Fourth Star?
- Notes:
- "There are only 20 three-star restaurants in all of France. This is the inside story of one of them, Bernard Loiseau's La Côte d'Or."--Dust jacket.
- 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.
- Kislak copy inscribed "Fritz - We are sure you will find many examples of both similarity and difference in comparing this success story with your own success story. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Love Page? and Micheline. November 1995".
- ISBN:
- 0316199931
- 9780316199933
- OCLC:
- 31295093
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