Blue Trout and Black Truffles: The Peregrinations of an Epicure

Blue Trout and Black Truffles: The Peregrinations of an Epicure

by Joseph Wechsberg
Blue Trout and Black Truffles: The Peregrinations of an Epicure

Blue Trout and Black Truffles: The Peregrinations of an Epicure

by Joseph Wechsberg

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Overview

There were, and still are, great restaurants all over Europe, but the greater part of Blue Trout and Black Truffles is devoted to the eatingplaces and vineyards of France. It is a vicarious experience to read about the culinary wonders of the notable establishments of another era that have become the last epicurean haven in this materialistic, mechanized world of fastfood chains and frozenfood dinners. Mr. Wechsberg reaches back to the twilight days of the Habsburg monarchy, when those splendid monuments to the haute cuisine in central Europe, Meissl and Schadn of Vienna and Gundel's of Budapest, were in their prime.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780897331340
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 08/30/2005
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Wechsberg worked as a lawyer, concert violinist, cameraman, malt salesman and newspaper reporter, but he was always an epicure. His stories ran in the New Yorker from 1949 to 1975. He died in Vienna in 1983.
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