GASTRONOMIQUE A COOKBOOK FOR GOURMETS Author:IDA BAILEY ALLEN Learn Gourmet cooking for the home - "Enjoy in your own home the elegant dishes you have savored in fine restaurants". Drawings by Jean Simpson. Chapters include essentials of connoisseur cooking, curtain raisers for luncheons or dinners, connoisseur soup repertoire, the eternal egg in contemporary ways, cheese and its service, fish and shellfis... more »h entrees, the big four in meats, ragouts and kebob, poultry for eating pleasure, game dinners any season, sauces, casseroles, curries and rechauffes, cold meals, vegetables, grains, salads and salad dressings, breads, the fascinating flambe, desserts-the grand finale, cakes, torten, petit fours, tarts, pies, beverages, wines and spirits, trends (as of 1958), cocktail time, glossary of culinary terms. Has an index.« less