Displaying 1 of 1 2017 Format: Book Author: Spring, Justin, 1962- author. Title: The gourmands' way : six Americans in Paris and the birth of a new gastronomy / Justin Spring. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. ©2017 Description: 433 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: Describes the lives of six Americans who wrote extensively about food and wine as they traveled, explored, immersed themselves in culture, and struggled with their writing careers in France between 1945 and 1974. Subjects: Food writers -- United States -- Biography. Cooks -- United States -- Biography. Food writing -- France -- Paris. Genre: Biographies. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Liebling and the Lion of Belfort -- The Franco-American (kitchen) alliance -- Alice Toklas starts over -- Gourmet, Brillat-Savarin and Paris cuisine -- Out on the town with Paul and Julia -- Richard Olney starts out -- Becoming Julia Child -- "As if a cook book had anything to do with writing" -- "I am a merchant of pleasure" -- Aromas and flavors of past and present -- "A dreamer of wine" -- A changing of the guard -- Olney stays on -- M. F. K. Fisher and the cooking of Provincial France -- Olney in the Var -- The end of the affair. LCCN: 2017001319 ISBN: 9780374103156 0374103151 9780374103156 0374103151 Other Number: 968639385 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 689224 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 641.5092 Spring Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
