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Dates: during 1961-1961
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LAROUSSE GASTRONOMIQUE, by Prosper Montagné (1,101 pp.; Crown: $20). In this large, well-illustrated American edition of the famous French encyclopedia of food and cooking are recipes for almost everything edible, definitions of culinary terms, and such curiosa as a description of what Louis XIV liked to eat for dinner (the fifth course consisted of various fresh-water fish cooked in pastry, and was intended to remove the taste of the larks, ortolans, thrushes, capons, woodcocks, young turkeys, young hares, sweetbreads, ham, forcemeats, hot pâtés and fritures that had preceded it). Its completeness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PRESENTATION PIECES | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

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