Research Catalog

Title

The New compleat imbiber / edited by Cyril Ray.

Publication

London : Collins, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ray, Cyril, 1908-

Description

[224] p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Food habits
• Wine > Social aspects
• Feeding Behavior
• Eating customs
• Wines Social aspects

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / John Arlott -- Editorial postscript -- As a sort of hors d'Oeuvre -- A vintner's view -- A consumer's -- Mr. Pooter's letter / Keith Waterhouse -- And a diner's-out 'Life is beautiful' / Edith Templeton -- Mrs Beeton and Mrs. Dickens / Margaret Lane -- The sixty-year old solitary Chez Soi / Iris Murdoch -- Bingo for Bifteck: lotto in the lot / Ruth Silvestre -- Investing in futures: a story / Kingsley Amis -- Rumpole and the blind tasting: a story / John Mortimer -- Sherry: a story / Peter Fleming -- The three low masses: a Christmas story / Alphonse Daudet -- Beats to the bar / Roger Woddis -- "The dons on the dais Serene' / Roger Lewis -- Drinker to lover, drunkard to lecher / Gavin Ewart -- Some people -- A Philippe de Rothschild diptych -- Three plates of pasta -- On the house -- Some memorable meals -- Breakfasts and breakfasts.

ISBN

0002177048

LCCN

gb^86016824^

OCLC

• 13822029
• SCSB-10549667

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library