Cooking for Crowds - Merry E. White

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Résumé :
Shares all the ingenious tricks that the author learned as a young Harvard graduate student earning her way through school as a caterer to European scholars, heads of state, and cosmopolitans like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Biographie:
Merry White is professor of anthropology at Boston University. Her books include Coffee Life in Japan and Noodles Galore. She teaches anthropology courses on food and social change, and has been a caterer, cookbook writer, and food journalist. She received Japan's prestigious Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, for her distinguished achievements in promoting Japanese culture. Edward Koren's acclaimed drawings have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. He has illustrated many books, including Poems I Wrote When No One Was Looking.

Sommaire:
Foreword by Darra Goldstein ix Introduction to the New Edition xvi Introduction to the First Edition xxiii Pots, Pans, and Utensils xxvii Herbs and Spices xxxi Conversion xxxiv Acknowledgments xxxv Soups and Starters 1 Main Dishes 43 Vegetables and Side Dishes 117 Desserts 141 List of Illustrations 171 Index 173