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Provence, 1970 : M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste / Luke Barr.
- Title
- Provence, 1970 : M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste / Luke Barr.
- Author
- Barr, Luke
- Publication
- New York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | TX715 .B3417 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 309 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Presents a dramatic account of the 1970 gathering in Provence where such culinary luminaries as James Beard and Julia Child debated and inadvertently launched the modern food movement in America.
- Subject
- Fisher, M. F. K. 1908-1992
- Child, Julia
- Jones, Judith, 1924-
- Beard, James, 1903-1985
- Olney, Richard
- Olney, Richard > Homes and haunts > France > Provence
- 1900-1999
- Cooking, American > History > 20th century
- Cooking, American > Philosophy
- Provence (France) > Biography
- Provence (France) > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Cookbooks
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue -- All Alone : December 20, 1970 -- Ten Weeks Earlier... -- En Route to Provence -- An Epic Dinner with Richard Olney -- First Meals in France -- La Pitchoune, Country Retreat -- James Beard's Doomed Diet -- Paris Interlude -- A Dinner Party at the Childs -- Sexual Politics -- Twilight of the Snobs -- Escape -- The Ghost of Arles and Avignon -- Christmas and Reveillon -- Going Home -- Last House -- New Beginnings -- Afterword: Provence Now.
- ISBN
- 9780307718341 (alkaline paper)
- 9780770433314 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013007782
- OCLC
- 841198112
- SCSB-12130524
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library