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Food With the Famous

by Jane Grigson

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This cookery book includes favourite recipes from famous people. It includes recipes and foods from writers John Evelyn, Jane Austen, Alexander Dumas, Emile Zola, painter Claude Monet plus Thomas Jefferson and the Reverend Sidney Smith.

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Genres: Nonfiction, Food & Cooking, History, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS: 641.5 — Applied Science & Technology Home economics & family management Food, Cooking & Recipes / Meals, Picnics Cooking; cookbooks
LCC: TX723.5 .A1 .G74 — Technology Home economics Home economics Cooking

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 4
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Published: 1979
Genres: Nonfiction, Food & Cooking, History, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS: 641.5
LCC: TX723.5 .A1 .G74

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