The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book / foreword by M. F. K. Fisher ; publisher's note by Simon Michael Bessie ; illustrations by Sir Francis Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toklas, Alice B.

Contributor:

Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992, writer of foreword.

Bessie, Simon Michael, writer of publisher's note.

Rose, Francis, Sir, 1909-1979, illustrator.

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

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, French.

Genre:

cookbooks.

Cookbooks.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], xvii, [5], 288, [8] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

[New Edition]

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984.

Contents:

A Happy Publisher's Note to the New Edition / Simon Michael Bessie

Foreword / M. F. K. Fisher

A Word with the Cook

1. The French Tradition

2. Food in French Homes

3. Dishes for Artists

4. Murder in the Kitchen

5. "Beautiful Soup"

6. Food to which Aunt Pauline and Lady Godiva led us

7. Treasures

8. Food in the United States in 1934 and 1935

9. Little-known French Dishes suitable for American and British Kitchens

10. Servants in France

11. Food in the Bugey during the Occupation

12. Recipes from Friends

13. The Vegetable Gardens at Bilignin.

Notes:

"This special edition of 'The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book' marks the thirtieth anniversary of its original publication."--Dust jacket lapel.

Front cover of dust jacket has portrait of Alice B. Toklas painted by Dora Maar.

Illustrated lining papers.

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 handwritten bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Toklas, Alice B. Alice B. Toklas cook book.

ISBN:

0061818763 (cloth) :

9780061818769

OCLC:

11427745