Stina, the story of a cook / by Herman Smith; illustrated by Eleanora Sense.

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"This is a cook book of choice recipes--recipes which came to Michigan by way of Stina, the Alsatian cook whose reverence for food was great because she'd known starvation through the siege of Paris. ... The recipes are interlarded with Stina's rare philosophy of life which was as sustaining as her...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Herman, 1881-1951 (Author)
Other Authors: Sense, Eleanora (Illustrator)
Language:English
Published: [New York] : M. Barrows & Co., Inc., 1942.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Stina.
Cooks > Biography.
Cooking, American.
Cooking > Michigan.
International cooking.
Food habits.
Manners and customs.
Cookbooks.
Genre:
Biography.
Cookbooks.
Local Note:
MSU: Gift of Donna Dixon McDaniel.
MSU: In dust jacket.
Physical Description:242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Home
  • Winter kitchen
  • Waiting for Spring
  • The first violets
  • Symphonies in green
  • C'est l'amour
  • Summer sun and shadows
  • High adventure
  • Vision fugitive
  • Bells at dusk
  • Man in the house
  • Valedictory
  • Swan song.