Food with the FamousAuthor: Jane GrigsonFood with the Famous began as a series of articles in the London Observer Colour Magazine and grew into this volume: part cookbook, part social history. To write it, Jane Grigson reread favorite novels; re-examined paintings; explored houses, letters, journals, and the cookbooks used or written by the eleven famous men and women whose culinary lives she has chosen to explore. The eleven famous men and women include John Evelyn, Parson James Woodforde, Jane Austen, Thomas Jefferson, Rev Sydney Smith, Lord Shaftesbury, Lady Shaftesbury, Alexandre Dumas, Emile Zola, Claude Monet, Marcel Proust.Book DetailsPublisher: AtheneumYear Published: 1979ISBN: 0689110243Book Number: 0914551Binding: HardcoverDust Jacket: YesPages: 256Book ConditionVery Good. The jacket has light wear and a little discoloration, the pages of the book have minimal to no wear.
