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Les Halles Cookbook.: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking. With José de Meirelles & Philippe Lajaunie. Photographs by Robert DiScalfani.
by BOURDAIN, Anthony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Bloomsbury,, 2004. First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Connie. Anthony Bourdain". Bourdain was the executive chef at New York City restaurant Les Halles from 1998 and remained the "chef-at-large" until its closure in 2016. "This is not a cookbook", he states in his introduction. "It will not teach you how to cook. The recipes, for the most part, are old standards, versions of which you can find in scores of other books. What's different about this volume is that the recipes are from Les Halles... which is to say that they are the official recipes from the best goddamn brasserie/bistro in the country". Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in black, front cover illustrated with Bourdain's chef-skull and knife logo, photographic endpapers. With colour photographs throughout. Spine sunned, trivial bumps at head and lower edges; corners of jacket just rubbed, a few marks on rear panel, unclipped: a near-fine copy in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 168721
- Title
- Les Halles Cookbook.
- Author
- BOURDAIN, Anthony
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Bloomsbury,
- Date Published
- 2004
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Sunned
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