The man who ate too much : the life of James Beard /

"The definitive biography of America's best-known and least understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped. After World War II, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of Escoffier, but al...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Birdsall, John, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • The swaddled ham
  • Mangoes in Panama
  • Jue Let's true essence of chicken
  • Cecil Fanning's tea cake
  • Early peas and other private pleasures
  • The Duchess of Windsor's corned beef hash balls
  • Brioche en surprise
  • The country omelet of New Canaan, Connecticut
  • Pheasant Souvaroff, an American dish
  • Pissaladière at the hamburger stand
  • American cheese
  • Woo Him with calf's head
  • Perdita bakes a layer cake
  • Coronation chicken
  • "More cakes, more tastes"
  • Cold Sicilian roulade with the master
  • Shattered glass and schneckenoodles
  • Salmon quiche à la Carl
  • Late raspberries for Christmas
  • Raisin bread redemption
  • Epilogue: Miss Lewis's biscuits for the dead.