INTRODUCTION
I Encounter Escoffier
CHAPTER ONE
Nathalie Dupree
CHAPTER TWO
The Pleasures of Reading Cookbooks No One Has Ever Heard Of
CHAPTER THREE
New Bern
CHAPTER FOUR
A Hometown in the Low Country
CHAPTER FIVE
My First Novelist
CHAPTER SIX
The Bill Dufford Summer
CHAPTER SEVEN
A Recipe Is a Story …
CHAPTER EIGHT
Honeymoon: The Romance of Umbria
CHAPTER NINE
Travel: Tuscany and Rome
CHAPTER TEN
Letter from Rome
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Italian Waiter
CHAPTER TWELVE
Eugene Walter of Mobile
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Southerner in Paris
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Bridesmaids’ Luncheon
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Why Dying Down South Is More Fun
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Oyster Roasts
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Men Grilling
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Vidalia Onions
CHAPTER NINETEEN
The Greatest of All South Carolinians
CHAPTER TWENTY
Frank Stitt
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Eating in New Orleans
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Julian Bach