Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste, by Luke BarrRead about another book on the list.
All hail the trinity of modern cuisine. Fisher’s grandnephew draws from his great-aunt’s journals and letters to reconstruct the serendipitous 1970 get-together of the time’s greatest culinary innovators, a meeting that would incontrovertibly change the course of American cooking. Like eavesdropping on a salon where palate finally shook pretentiousness.
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