Blue Trout and Black Truffles: the Peregrinations of an Epicure

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Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; My Delicate Childhood, or: The Education of a Gourmet; The First I Saw Paris; Encore; Artist's Dream; Tafelspitz for the Hofrat; A Dish for Lucullus; The Sausage Millennium; A Balatoni Fogas to Start with; Connoisseurs and Patriots; The Ladies from Maxim's; Black Truffles; One Moment in Heaven; Afternoon at Château D'yquem; Provence without Garlic; The Mysterious Fish Soup; Worth a Special Journey -- The Formidable Monsieur Point.;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 Budape.