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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Spitz, Bob.
The saucier’s apprentice : one long strange trip through the great
cooking schools of Europe / Bob Spitz.—1st ed.
p. cm.

ISBN: 978-0-393-11399-0

1. Gastronomy. 2. Cookery, European. 3. Cooking schools—Europe. I. Title.
TX641.S72 2008
641'.013—dc22

2008001331

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