The Kitchen Book | The Cook Book
by Nicolas Freeling
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Nicolas Freeling, best known for producing some of the finest of modern crime fiction, began his working life as an apprentice cook in a large French hotel, and continued cooking professionally for many years. Here is his memoir drawn from these experiences, a blend of the culinary and the literary, and includes recipes.Tags
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Entertaining snapshots of life as a cook in the old French ‘System’. Frequently referred to in Anthony Bourdain's [b:Kitchen Confidential|33313|Kitchen Confidential Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition)|Anthony Bourdain|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168422043s/33313.jpg|4219].
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Novelist Nicolas Freeling was born in London on March 3, 1927. After serving in the military and working as a cook, he began his first novel, Love in Amsterdam, while in prision for theft. He is best know for his Piet Van der Valk dective stories which inspired two television series. He also created the Henri Castang series and wrote numerous show more individual novels. He received the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for The King of the Rainy Country. He also won the Gold Dagger from the British Crime Writers Association and France's Grand Prix de Roman Policier. He died on July 20, 2003 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- I saw you in the old Vél d’Hiv, the bicycle stadium in Paris where, with that peculiar sense of fitness, and order, and logic that some people had, the Jews were once rounded up. If they got cold—but the French themselve... (show all)s called it the Winter Stadium, didn’t they? Well then, let them go round and round in it. And if they want to be six-day raiders, eating and drinking too much isn’t going to improve them either.
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