Setting the table for Julia Child
Subtitle: gourmet dining in America, 1934-1961
By: David Strauss
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780801897733
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Food fights in Depression-era America : the good life vs. the healthy life; title: An infrastructure for gourmet dining : chefs, wine dealers, and the search for a cosmopolitan lifestyle after the repeal of Prohibition; title: Origins, rituals, and menus of gourmet dining societies, 1934-1961; title: The impact of selectivity and publicity on the gourmet dining movement; title: Beating the Nazis with truffles and tripe : the early years of "Gourmet : the magazine of good living"; title: Gourmet's gastronomic tours : Samuel Chamberlain and his bouquets; title: From readers to cooks? : the impact of Gourmet/gourmet recipes; title: Julia and Simca : a Franco-American culinary alliance.