Remembrance of Things Paris or Sober Celebrations

Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet

Author: Gourmet Magazine Editors

For 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. 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.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
	Paris in the Twenties	3
	After the War	11
	Chicken Demi-Deuil	18
	Cuisine Parisienne	23
	Paris One Step at a Time	33
	The Old Flower Market	39
	All that Glitters	43
	Haute Couture	49
	Sold!	59
	Bibliotheque du Gourmet	65
	A Night at Les Halles	71
	Les Halles: A Last Look	78
	La Vie Moderne	87
	Cold Comfort	93
	The President of Pastry	98
	Paris's Haute Chocolaterie	101
	La Vie en Rose	119
	Home Away from Home	125
	Bistros	133
	Allard	139
	Le Bistrot de Paris	144
	La Tour d'Argent	151
	Prunier	154
	Lucas-Carton	159
	A Secret Club	167
	Maxim's	171
	Maxim's	177
	When Michelin Comes Knocking	191
	La Grande Cuisine Francaise	194
	Jacques Maniere's Human Factor	198
	Young Chefs of Paris	202
	When I Was Green	217
	A Memory of Alice B. Toklas	227
	Noel a Paris	234
	A Little Black Magic	244
	An Insincere Cassoulet	246
	She Did Not Look Like an Actress to Me	259
	The Christening	269
	High and Dry	286
	Parisian Police	290
	A Nose	295
	The Seventh Art	298
	The Most Intimate Room	302
	Grand Masters	313
	The New Face of Paris	327
	The Three Musketeers	333
	It's What's For Dinner	340
	Notes on Contributors	343

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Sober Celebrations: Lively Entertaining Without the Spirits

Author: Liz Scott

On the heels of her ground-breaking, award-winning 'Sober Kitchen' cookbook, Chef Liz Scott serves up this "must-have" innovative guide to holiday and special occasion entertaining for anyone who chooses to celebrate alcohol-free. With 25 diverse menus and 150 delicious recipes, Chef Liz proves that festivity and fun can be effortlessly achieved without a drop of alcohol. Included are creative, sober ingredient substitutions for use in classic holiday dishes, alcohol-free beverage pairings for every course, and abundant tips and suggestions for simple and imaginative party hosting that will guarantee an atmosphere of liveliness and "high spirits." Beautifully photographed throughout, this is a unique and dazzling cookbook that addresses the needs of a health-conscious audience. An invaluable tool for the host who may need to accomodate, either entirely or in part, for specific needs, tastes, and preferences of guests who avoid alcohol in their diet permanently or temporarily.

Library Journal

Expanding on her earlier cookbook, The Sober Kitchen, Scott has filled an important niche. The requirements of recovering alcoholics are often overlooked at party time, but this cookbook exemplifies how to party without alcoholic beverages or ingredients. With 25 menus focusing on birthdays and weddings as well as major holidays like New Year's Eve, Christmas, and Hanukkah, Scott has created a celebratory atmosphere without alcohol. Each menu includes tips for purchasing ingredients, with cautions for avoiding hidden alcoholic additives. The menus incorporate festive beverages to accompany the luscious food courses. A renowned chef, Scott has developed interesting dishes and even adjusted old favorites like Irish coffee, Concord grape fizzes, and English trifle. The recipes vary from comfort food such as Fortuna Lentils with Italian Chicken Sausage to light fare such as Cool Cucumber Soup with Mint and Cumin. Each of the 150 recipes would stimulate the appetite of any gourmand, recovering alcoholic or not. Recommended for all public libraries. (Photographs and index not seen.)-Ann Weber, Bellarmine Coll. Preparatory Lib., San Jose, CA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.