Remembrance of Things Paris - Sixty years of writing from Gourmet
Author(s): Ruth Reichl (editor)
Food Writing | Christmas Inspiration
For sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. Collected here, their essays create a unique portrait of the world capital of love and food. When the book begins, just after the war, Paris is a hungry city whose chefs struggle to find the eggs and cream they need to re-create the cuisine from before the German occupation. The city comes alive again with zinc-topped tables crowded with people drinking café au lait and reveling in crisp baguettes, and with the triumphant rebirth of three-star cuisine. In time, nouvelle cuisine is born and sweeps through a newly chic and modern city. It is all here - the old-time bourgeois dinners, the tastemakers of the fashion world, the hero-chefs, and, of course, Paris in all its snobbery and refinement, its inimitable pursuit of the art of fine living.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Random House
- : The Modern Library
- : 01 February 2005
- : 20.30 cmmm X 13.20 cmmm X 2.00 cmmm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ruth Reichl (editor)
- : Paperback
- : en
- : very good
- : 368