A horticultural tour of Marie-Antoinette's domain, the lavishly constructed gardens at Versailles, accompanied by eighteenth-century botanical watercolors from Pierre-Joseph Redout and his contemporaries.Plants, flowers, and trees were Marie-Antoinette's passion; she transformed the Petit Trianon's gardens into an enchanted refuge from the oppressive shackles of Versailles. Based on archival documents, this book meanders through Marie-Antoinette's estate as the queen herself ...
This essential reference covers all aspects of the four cheese styles—including 150 varieties; how to select, serve, savor, and store them; and forty-six recipes from around the world. This comprehensive book provides a complete overview of cheese so readers can recognize the properties of each family: their history, ingredients, production and aging processes, seasonality, flavor profiles, and pairing affinities. Expert tips for choosing which cheese to buy, how to serve and...
Marin Montagut's charming guide takes readers inside more than 475 shops, museums, neighbourhoods, gardens, restaurants, and caf s that exude the enchanting essence of Paris.To discover every beguiling corner of Paris like a local, follow Marin Montagut to his favourite places; in operation for thirty years or more, these addresses define what makes the city so captivating. His adorable watercolours, accompanied by drawings from antique mercantile stock lists, bring each loca...
This illustrated biography offers unprecedented insight into Coco Chanel's complex and enigmatic life through new research and analysis of the designer by an expert historian.Chanel expert Isabelle Fiemeyer offers a rare, deeply personal look into the life of the iconic designer Coco Chanel. This biography draws from exclusive interviews with Chanel's closest family members and extensive archival research to reveal the designer's most private world—her love for symbolism and ...
FERRANDI Paris, the French School of Culinary Arts dubbed the "Harvard of gastronomy" by Le Monde newspaper provides the ultimate reference on preparing and cooking meat.This book offers a complete course in cooking all types of meat: beef, veal, pork, lamb, poultry, and game. From trussing a chicken to tying a pork loin to dressing a rack of lamb, readers will gain all the fundamentals for preparing meat, along with more advanced techniques such as preparing sweetbread or de...
Trace the genesis of Jackson Pollock's work in this intimate portrait of the radical twentieth-century artist from his childhood in the American West through the diverse cultural influences that charted his artistic evolution.Jackson Pollock's "drip technique" paintings are among the most readily recognizable works of modern art, and they launched his career in 1947. Yet less is known of his earlier works, which are seldom presented together as a focus of study in their own r...
C'est une sorte de village de pecheurs aux maisons d'un étage, niché au creux d'un bras de mer qui s'enfonce comme une langue, a l'extreme nord de la Norvege. C'est la que tout a commencé: l'accident sur la plateforme pétroliere, de l'autre côté du chenal, la fissure qui menace dangereusement le glacier et ces poissons qu'on a retrouvés morts. Et si tout était lié ? C'est en tant qu'ingénieur géologue que Noah, enfant du pays, va revenir en mission et retrouver Ana, son amour...
This essential reference in the history of urban photography compiled by Brassa himself and first published in 1933 has been meticulouslyreproduced in a new edition with gilt edging.The city of Paris bewitched Hungarian-born Brassa . Working as a journalist by day in the early 1930s, he roamed the streets of the capital by night, visiting its bistros and sharing moments in the lives of avant-garde artists, prostitutes, peddlers, down-and-outs, and illicit lovers. He captured ...
