Two Loaf-givers

Or a Tour Through the Gastronomic Libraries of Katherine Golden Bitting and Elizabeth Robins Pennell

• Author(s): Leonard N. Beck,
• Publisher: Library of Congress
• Pages: 223
• ISBN_10: 0844404047
  ISBN_13: 9780844404042
  
• Language: en

Description:... Abstract: A history of gastronomy derived from information gleaned from the Bitting and Pennell gastronomic library collections, translating and interpreting the writings contained in these two collections. The second half of the text provides an ambitious interpretation of French gastronomic liter ature. Many illustrative anecdotes are presented throughout the text and a variety of historic prints are included.