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0060122889. Illustrated by Lauren Jarret. 380 pages, illustrations, cloth, gift inscription on [...]
0060122889. Illustrated by Lauren Jarret. 380 pages, illustrations, cloth, gift inscription on front blank endpaper otherwise very good. 1st edition. 'Some of the world's greatest food lovers celebrate the glories and pleasures of food and the many roles it plays in life itself. Among them: Anton Chekhov, James Beard, Ben Jonson, Oscar Wilde, Alice B. Toklas, Art Buchwald, Craig Claiborne, Ernest Hemingway, Julia Child, Marcel Proust, James Michener, Enrico Caruso, Euell Gibbons, Ogden Nash, Mimi Sheraton, Woody Allen and more. Also Richard E. Byrd on An Explorer Cooks in Antarctica, Jonathan Swift on Every Cook's Opinion, Michael Field on Food and World Affairs, Brillat-Savarin on the Influence of Gourmandism on Wedded Happiness, June Havoc's Breakfast on Foot, Rex Stout on The Not-to-be-trifled with Palate of Nero Wolfe, Arthur Rubinstein on A World War I Soup Line, Craig Claiborne's Just a Quiet Dinner for Two. Ernest Hemingway's Hunger was Good Discipline, Russell Baker on Francis and Beans.
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