"The Tavern is My Drum" Henry IV--W. Shakespare. My Autobiography, by Joseph Vecchi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vecchi, Joseph.

Contributor:

Farson, Negley, 1890-1960, writer of preface.

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

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vecchi, Joseph.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (donor)

Physical Description:

224 pages, [8] leaves of plates illustrations, portraits 22 cm

Distribution:

London : Distributed by Simpkin Marshall (1941) Ltd.,

Other Title:

Tavern is my Drum

My Autobiography

Place of Publication:

London, Published by Odhams Press Ltd., 1948.

Contents:

Preface: A Dish of Life / Negley Farson

I. Early Days

II. Berlin, Prior to the First World War

III. St. Petersburg

IV. The Drumbeats of War Resound Through Russia

V. Rasputin Pulls the Strings, and Russia Dances to Destruction

VI. The Storm Gathers

VII. Kiev

The Mother of Russia

VIII. Storm over Russia

IX. Who Could Steer the Ship?

X. The Rising of the Bolsheviks

XI. Taking up the Threads

XII. Return to England

XIII. The Founding of the "Hungaria"

XIV. The Next Ten Years.

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 front free endpaper wanting.

OCLC:

1747680