Paris à table, 1846

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Paris a Table: 1846' is the first translation in English of a seminal book on gastronomy. Focusing on the Parisian dining scene, it takes the reader from the most elegant restaurant to a laborer's meals on the street, offering "the richest view of Balzac's time seen from the table" (Le Monde).0Translated by J. Weintraub.

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Title Statements

Full title :Paris à table, 1846. / Eugene Briffault.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Kettering
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

Description:272 pages

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780190842031, 0190842032
oclc:on1042085215
LC Classification:D250
Dewey Decimal:940.2

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword TK -- Introduction Dinner in the Current Age: A Translation from Paris à table -- Chapter I Introduction: The Parisian Dinner -- Chapter II The History of Dinner up to Our Time -- Chapter III Dinner in the Current Age -- Chapter IV Varieties of Dinner -- Chapter V People Who Do Not Dine -- Chapter VI Breakfast -- Chapter VII Luncheon -- Chapter VIII Supper -- Chapter IX Clubs, Cercles, Tables d'Hôte, Pensions Bourgeoises, Rest Homes -- Chapter X The Restaurants of Paris -- Chapter XI Eccentricities.

Subjects

COOKING -- Regional & Ethnic Dinners and dining Dinners and dining -- History. -- France France -- Paris History History -- France. -- Europe Manners and customs Paris (France) -- Mœurs et coutumes -- … Paris (France) -- Social life and custo…