Author: Chamberlains, Narcissa (recipes by)
Title: French Menus For Parties
Publisher: Hastings House
Place: New York
Date: (1968)
Edition: first ed
Pages: 255
Binding: Hardback
Condition: VERY GOOD very good dj
Photographer: Samuel Chamberlain
Book Id: MAIN007780I
Details: Introduction, indices
Summary: Contains 52 menus for entertaining, from simple luncheons to elaborate meals in the grand style for dinner parties and holidays. These are authentically French meals adapted to the American style of party-giving. American cocktail hors d'oeuvre with a French flavor are included.
Recipes are presented in step-by-step detail, accompanied by suggestions for appropriate French or American wines.
Samuel Chamberlain's photographs of France are grouped in regional and architectural sequences.
For example, a 12-page portrait of Burgundy accompanies the classic Burgundian menus; views of Paris and Notre-Dame with an Easter dinner; facades of famous restaurants with formal dinner-party menus; views of the sunny Riviera accompany Provencal summer luncheons.
Contains a checklist of courses and recipes, in addition to a bi-lingual recipe index.
About the authors and photographer: Narcisse Chamberlain and her parents, Samuel and Narcissa G. Chamberlain, have championed the cause of French food for American kitchens for many years. Formerly an editor at Gourmet Magazine, she is now an associate editor at William Morrow &: Company, Publishers. Miss Chamberlain has edited many cookbooks, including four mentioned on the back of this jacket produced jointly with her father artist, photographer, and gastronome and her mother expert cook and recipe tester.
The Chamberlains learned to respect the traditions of French food during long residence in France. A French cook who once reigned in their kitchen was the heroine of the first Chamberlain cookbook, Clementine in the Kitchen. Since then, besides Samuel Chamberlain's many illustrated books in other fields, he and his wife have published three gastronomic travel epics Bouquet de France, of which a new revised edition has recently appeared, Italian Bouquet, and British Bouquet.