I would like to thank all those at the Center for West European Studies at Harvard for both encouraging and tolerating my experiments. In particular, I would like to thank Professor Stanley Hoffman, Abby Collins, Leonie Gordon, Peter Gourevitch, and all those who washed dishes, rushed hot food to tables, and cheerfully shared their food when too many people came.
I am grateful to Martha Lange who helped set up the first edition of the cookbook which the Center printed and distributed in Cambridge. Carol Bangs gave me space in her refrigerator, Lew Wurgaft scrubbed innumerable pots and pans and helped me through all the bad spots, and Jenny White chopped onions until the tears came. Thank you all.