Title:
Remembrance of things Paris : sixty years of writing from Gourmet
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Edition:
2005 Modern Library paperback edition.
Publication Date:
2005
2004
Publication Information:
New York : The Modern Library, 2005.
©2004
Physical Description:
xiii, 344 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780812971934
Abstract:
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 tables crowded with people drinking cafe au lait and reveling in crisp baguettes, and 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. Beautifully written, these dispatches from the past are intimate and immediate, allowing us to watch the month-by-month changes in the worlds most wonderful city. Remembrance of Things Paris is a book for anyone who wants to return to a Paris where a buttery madeleine is waiting around every corner.
General Note:
Originally published: New York : Modern Library, 2004.
Contents:
Remembering Paris. Paris in the twenties / Irene Corbally Kuhn ; After the war / Don Dresden ; Chicken demi-deuil / George Bijur ; Cuisine Parisienne / Louis Diat ; Paris one step at a time / Joseph Wechsberg -- City of light. The old flower market / Joseph Wechsberg ; All that glitters / Joseph Wechsberg ; Haute couture / Joseph Wechsberg ; Sold! / Joseph Wechsberg ; Bibliotèque du Gourmet / Joseph Wechsberg -- Feeding a city. A night at Les Halles / Alaire Johnston ; Les Halles : a last look / Naomi Barry ; La vie moderne / Joseph Wechsberg -- Purveyors. Cold comfort / Joseph Wechsberg ; The president of pastry / Joseph Wechsberg ; Paris's haute chocolaterie / Namoi Barry ; La vie en rose / Frank J. Prial -- The bistro scene. Home away from home / Joseph Wechsberg ; Bistros / Naomi Barry ; Allard / Naomi Barry ; Le bistrot de Paris / Naomi Barry -- Classic tables. La Tour d'Argent / Joseph Wechsberg ; Prunier / Naomi Barry ; Lucas-Carton / Naomi Barry ; A secret club / Joseph Wechsberg ; Maxim's / Naomi Barry ; Maxim's / Joseph Wechsberg -- The chefs. When Michelin comes knocking / Joseph Wechsberg ; La grande cuisine française / Joseph Wechsberg ; Jacques Manière's human factor / Joseph Wechsberg ; Young chefs of Paris / Naomi Barry ; When I was green / Patric Kub -- Americans in Paris. A memory of Alice B. Toklas / Naomi Barry ; Noël à Paris / Judith and Evan Jones ; A little black magic / Ruth Reichl ; An insincere cassoulet / Michael Lewis -- Parisians. She did not look like an actress to me / Hilaire du Berrier ; The christening / Lillian Langseth-Christensen ; High and dry / Joseph Wechsberg ; Parisian police / Joseph Wechsberg ; A nose / Joseph Wechsberg ; The seventh art / Joseph Wechsberg ; The most intimate room / Diane Johnson -- Paris today. Grand masters / Jonathan Gold ; The new face of Paris / Paul Goldberger ; The three musketeers / Patric Kub ; It's what's for dinner / François Simon.
Language:
English
Added Uniform Title:
Gourmet.
