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Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: Techniques of French Cuisine

Author: Louis Diat
ISBN #: 0394540336
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publisher Location: New York
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: very good
Edition: Later Printing
Pub Date: 1983
lightest wear to the book, top edge shows minimal dusting; jacket is price-clipped, spine sunned. Clean and unmarked. Sixth printing (1983) of the 1961 first edition. Classic compendium of basic French cooking, an excellent cookbook with more than 1,000 recipes. Louis Diat of the Ritz-Carlton contributed articles to Gourmet for twelve years. This book is "a natural and fitting culmination of Monsieur Louis' lifelong career as a chef and teacher of chefs." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!