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Dinners: Long and Short / by A. H. Adair ; with an introduction by X. Marcel Boulestin and a portrait by Marie Laurencin.
LIBRA - Rare TX717 .A19 1928
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adair, A. H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, English.
- Cooking, French.
- Menus.
- Dinners and dining.
- Physical Description:
- 252, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- London : Printed by The Camelot Press Ltd.,
- Place of Publication:
- London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1928.
- Contents:
- Introduction "Yet One More" / X. Marcel Boulestin
- The Cook and the Mistress
- Polite Wine Drinking
- A Gastronomic Calendar
- Luncheon Menus
- Dinner Menus
- Recipes.
- Notes:
- "In the present book ... Mr. Adair gives menus for 52 lunches and 52 dinners ... for formal and informal occasions, with recipes for every dish and notes for the treatment, keeping and serving of appropriate wines; together with a calendar of foods in season."
- Includes index of recipes with translations.
- Local Notes:
- TX717.A19 1928: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Phyllis Gosfeld in 2016 has dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 17833300
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