Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Epigraph

Prologue

Chapter 1: Free Range

Chapter 2: Very Fleshy and Full of Life

Chapter 3: What Would Escoffier Do?

Chapter 4: Columba Livia

Chapter 5: Flying Pie

Chapter 6: Setting This World on Fire

Chapter 7: In the San Juans

Chapter 8: Hansel and Gretel

Chapter 9: The Sacred Trinity

Chapter 10: Putting Up

Chapter 11: The Deaths of H&G

Chapter 12: The Boars of Bear Valley

Chapter 13: Nymphs at Dawn

Chapter 14: The Hairbag by the River

Chapter 15: A Scavenger’s Freezer

Chapter 16: The Stinkhole Mountains

Chapter 17: Mixed Bag

Chapter 18: The Enigma of Vatel

Chapter 19: Brigade de Cuisine

Chapter 20: The Tastes of Escoffier

Chapter 21: Ancient Carp

Dedication

Acknowledgments

By Steven Rinella

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