Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
A glorious, edible tour of Paris through six decades of writing from Gourmet magazine, edited and introduced by Ruth ReichlFor sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. Collected here for the first time, their essays create a unique and timeless portrait of the world capital of love and food. When the book begins, just after the war, we are in a hungry city whose chefs struggle to find the eggs and cream they need to re-create the cuisine from before the German occupation. We watch as Paris comes alive again with zinc-topped tables crowded with people drinking cafe au lait and reveling in crisp baguettes, and the triumphant rebirth of three-star cuisine. In time, nouvelle cuisine is born and sweeps through a newly chic and modern city. It is all here: the old-time bourgeois dinners, the tastemakers of the fashion world, the hero-chefs, and, of course, Paris in all its snobbery and refinement, its inimitable pursuit of the art of fine living. Beautifully written, these dispatches from the past are intimate and immediate, allowing us to watch the month-by-month changes in the world's most wonderful city. Remembrance of Things Paris is a book for anyone who wants to return to a Paris where a buttery madeleine is waiting around every corner.Contributors include Louis Diat, Naomi Barry, Joseph Wechsberg, Judith and Evan Jones, Don Dresden, Lillian Langseth-Christensen, Diane Johnson, Michael Lewis, and Jonathan Gold.From the Hardcover edition.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: English
Showing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Remembrance of Things Paris
2009, Random House Publishing Group
E-book
in English
0307490114 9780307490117
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library Food)
March 8, 2005, Modern Library
Paperback
in English
0812971930 9780812971934
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
Remembrance of things Paris: sixty years of writing from Gourmet
2004, Modern Library
in English
- 2004 Modern Library ed.
0679643095 9780679643098
|
eeee
|
4
Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library)
March 16, 2004, Modern Library
Hardcover
in English
- Modern Library Ed edition
0679643095 9780679643098
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
First Sentence
"The year was 1921."
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 29, 2008
- 7 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
April 27, 2011 | Edited by OCLC Bot | Added OCLC numbers. |
August 6, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs. |
April 16, 2010 | Edited by bgimpertBot | Added goodreads ID. |
April 29, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record |