num_pages: 448
description: James Beard, a pioneer of modern American cookery was for over five decades America's most celebrated cook and food writer. Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles is a rich selection of more than 300 letters, many containing recipes, written to his close friend and fellow chef Helen Evans Brown over a period of twelve years. Focusing mainly on food but also filled with witty, insightful comments on the state of the world as he saw it, these letters offer an intimate look at American culinary and social history during a very important period of its evolution.
language: English
title: Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles: Letters To Helen Evans Brown
titlecomplete: Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles: Letters To Helen Evans Brown
genres: Memoir
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Arcade Publishing