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Feasts of a Militant Gastronome,

June Guicharnaud

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From the front-inside cover:

“Much more than a cookbook, though it is that, too, this is an often funny and always determined critique of the state of French gastronomy today [1974]. Through the description of thirty fabulous meals – all of which actually took plac3 – France’s most prestigious food journalist he sets forth how things should be and make plain his outrage at symptoms of deterioration in the national cuisine.

Robert Courtin by no means believes that greatness is to be found only in high places, so the restaurants, the feasts, and the guests present on each occasion vary widely. Several of these meals too place, of course, at the most renowned restaurants in the land . But there are also provincial meals cooked in private homes; a remarkable meal in a farmhouse for which all the produce but the coffee and the salt was raised on the property; brief impeccable luncheons; and some pungent curiosities such as aioli served up in an obscure café frequented by petty crooks in the south of France.”

Recipes included.

Language: English

Pages: 283

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: William Morrow, New York

Release: May 12, 1974

ISBN: 068800296X

ISBN 13: 9780688002961

Feasts of a Militant Gastronome,

June Guicharnaud

2.8/5 ( ratings)

From the front-inside cover:

“Much more than a cookbook, though it is that, too, this is an often funny and always determined critique of the state of French gastronomy today [1974]. Through the description of thirty fabulous meals – all of which actually took plac3 – France’s most prestigious food journalist he sets forth how things should be and make plain his outrage at symptoms of deterioration in the national cuisine.

Robert Courtin by no means believes that greatness is to be found only in high places, so the restaurants, the feasts, and the guests present on each occasion vary widely. Several of these meals too place, of course, at the most renowned restaurants in the land . But there are also provincial meals cooked in private homes; a remarkable meal in a farmhouse for which all the produce but the coffee and the salt was raised on the property; brief impeccable luncheons; and some pungent curiosities such as aioli served up in an obscure café frequented by petty crooks in the south of France.”

Recipes included.

Language: English

Pages: 283

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: William Morrow, New York

Release: May 12, 1974

ISBN: 068800296X

ISBN 13: 9780688002961

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