About this title: A glorious, edible tour of Paris through six decades of writing from Gourmet magazine, edited and introduced by Ruth Reichl
For sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. Collected here for the first time, their essays create a unique and timeless portrait of the world capital of love and food. When the book begins, just after the war, we are in a hungry city whose chefs struggle to find the eggs and cream they need to re-create the cuisine from before the German occupation. We watch as Paris comes alive again with zinc-topped ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780812971934ISBN:0812971930
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date published: 2005-03-08
ISBN-13:9780812971934ISBN:0812971930
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date published: 2004-03-16
ISBN-13:9780679643098ISBN:0679643095
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780812971934ISBN:0812971930
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780679643098ISBN:0679643095
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780812971934ISBN:0812971930
Description: New. For sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to "Gourmet. " At once unique and universal, these essays by Joseph Wechsberg, Naomi Barry, and Diane Johnson, among others, present tantalizing glimpses of culinary life in... read more
"A great book to dip into on a Grey and cold winter evening. Dream of meals that you could be making and gorgeous French men who could be escorting you into restaurants to feast on oysters and veau blanquette instead of sitting in your nightie with the cat eating soft boiled eggs."
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