Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet by Gourmet Magazine Editors
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- ISBN 10 0307490114
- ISBN 13 9780307490117
- Published Apr 02 2009
- Format eBook
- Page Count 368
- Language English
- Countries United States
- Publisher Modern Library
- Imprint Modern Library
Publishers Text
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 tables crowded with people drinking café 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 world’s 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.
Contributors include Louis Diat, Naomi Barry, Joseph Wechsberg, Judith and Evan Jones, Don Dresden, Lillian Langseth-Christensen, Diane Johnson, Michael Lewis, and Jonathan Gold.
Other cookbooks by this author
- The Best of Gourmet 1986
- The Best of Gourmet 1987
- The Best of Gourmet 1988
- The Best of Gourmet 1989
- The Best of Gourmet 1990
- The Best of Gourmet 1991
- The Best of Gourmet 1992
- The Best of Gourmet 1992: Featuring the Flavors of France
- The Best of Gourmet 1993
- The Best of Gourmet 1994: Featuring the Flavors of China
- The Best of Gourmet 1995: Featuring the Flavors of Mexico
- The Best of Gourmet 1996: Featuring the Flavors of England, Ireland & Scotland
- The Best of Gourmet 1996: Featuring the Flavors of England, Ireland & Scotland
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- The Best of Gourmet 2001: Featuring the Flavors of Sicily
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