Research Catalog

Title

An omelette and a glass of wine / Elizabeth David.

Author

David, Elizabeth, 1913-1992.

Publication

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1985.

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Details

Description

318 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Essays discuss English cuisine, public houses, cooking techniques, antique cookbooks, restaurants, seasonings, and memories of special meals.

Subject

• Cooking
• Cooking
• recipes

Genre/Form

• Cookbook
• cookbooks.
• Cookbooks
• Cookbooks.
• Livres de cuisine.

Note

• "Elisabeth Sifton books."
• Includes index.

Contents

Introduction -- John Wesley's eye -- Fast and fresh -- The true emulsion -- Lucky dip -- Summer holidays -- Bid bad Bramleys -- Crackling -- Your perfected hostess -- Secrets -- Ladies' halves -- Letting well alone -- An omelette and a glass of wine -- Chez Barattero -- Dishes for collectors -- Eating out in Provincial France 1965-1977 -- Confor anglais, French fare -- Roustidou -- Golden delicious -- A la marinière -- Fruits de mer -- Waiting for lunch -- Para navidad -- Pizza -- Sweet vegetables, soft wines -- Bruscandoli -- Mafalda, Giovanna, Giulia -- Have it your way -- South wind through the kitchen -- The Englishman's food -- Home baked bread -- West Points -- If you care to eat shark -- Moorish recipes -- Fine bouche -- How bare is your cupboard? -- Chez Gee-Gee -- Franglais -- Exigez le véritable cheddar français -- Having crossed the channel -- Pomaine, master of the unsacrosanct -- Table talk -- Whiskey in the kitchen -- A gourmet in Edwardian London -- I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon -- Pleasing cheeses -- Sweet Aristo -- English potted meats and fish pastes -- Syllabubs and fruit fools -- Operation mulberry -- Foods of legend -- The markets of France: Cavaillon, Yvetot, Montpellier, Martigues, Valence -- Oules of Sardines -- Trufflesville Regis -- The magpie system -- Traditional Christmas dishes -- Welsh doubles -- Too many cooks -- Isabella Beeton and her book -- Index.

ISBN

• 0670807699
• 9780670807697

LCCN

85003282

OCLC

• ocm11754908
• 11754908
• SCSB-622011

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library