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First electronic edition, April 2006
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Copyright © 2005 by Rudolph Chelminski
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Chelminski, Rudolph.
The perfectionist: life and death in haute cuisine / by Rudolph Chelminski.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-1012-1668-2
Set in Electra with Trajan and Shelley Andante Script
Designed by Sabrina Bowers
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