Typed letter signed : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1980 Dec. 1.

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Typed letter signed : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1980 Dec. 1.

1980

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Discussing "the Tokyo edition of the Tsuji book" [Shizuo Tsuji's Japanese Cooking: a Simple Art]; advising him to look at an article in Fortune called "Who is mass-marketing the great chefs of Europe?"; giving her opinion of family fights in which family members stop speaking to each other; sharing gossip about their shared acquaintances; describing an 18-year-old boy who visited her and how much additional food she had to cook for him; mentioning visitors including Norah [Barr], Julia and Paul Child, and Simca [Simone Beck].

1 item (4 p.) ; 27.9 cm.

eng, Latn

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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