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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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2020]
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| 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.