Intro -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Menu for a Simple Spring Lunch -- When you are Famished (Hors d'Œuvres) -- Crudités -- Lime sauce -- Ravigote sauce -- Vegetables à la grecque -- Aubergines en hors d'œuvre -- Gildas -- Pickled eggs -- Deviled eggs -- Eggs Pierre de Lune-Nosrat -- Pâté d'oeuf -- Chicken liver à la Toscane -- Shrimp pâté -- Pickled shrimp -- Gelatina di pomodoro -- Oeufs en gelée -- Caviar-leek pots de crème -- Roast oysters with pepper sauce -- Oysters Rockefeller -- Clams Casino -- Filet mignon on toast -- Braised lettuce on toast -- Foie gras sandwiches -- Menu for a Fancy Spring Dinner -- La Bonne Soupe (Soups) -- Herb soup -- Watercress soup -- Cold cream of tomato soup (salmorejo) -- Cream of lettuce soup -- Potage Esau -- Clam chowder -- Oyster stew -- Shrimp bisque -- Potage Billy By -- Clam bouillon for 8 people -- Egg drop soup -- Georgette's consommé (or something like it) -- Menu for a Summer Lunch -- A Growing Love (Salads) -- Herb salad -- Watercress salad -- A plain green salad vinaigrette -- Green Goddess salad -- Buttermilk dressing -- Blue cheese salad -- Home cook's salad -- Crab Louis Dashiell -- Waldorf salad, in pieces -- Anything and pickle salad -- Alligator pear salad -- Avocat en vinaigrette -- Menu for a Fancy Summer Dinner -- In Vegetable Veritas (Vegetables) -- Gâteaux de courgettes -- Stuffed zucchini -- Buttered zucchini -- Turnip gratin -- Parsleyed potatoes -- Fried potatoes -- Potatoes Delmonico -- Everyone's cabbage -- Limas and eggplants à la crème -- Fresh bean succotash -- Italian creamed spinach -- Four-day spinach -- Garlicky green beans amandine -- Petits pois à la française -- Herbed tomatoes -- Buttered tomatoes on toast -- Sweet-and-spicy cucumbers -- Menu for an Autumn Lunch -- To Rise Like Rice (Starches and Eggs) -- Riz au fromage -- Riz à la Georgienne.

My mother's rice pilaf -- Crisp rice croquettes -- Macaronade -- Macaroni à la à la Godard -- Herbed crêpes with mushrooms -- Buckwheat crêpes -- Crêpes farcies -- Cheese soufflé -- Leek pudding soufflé -- Corn pudding -- A respectful omelet -- Oeufs en meurette -- Prairie oyster -- Menu for a Fast Autumn Dinner -- A Good Effect (Meat) -- Not-chicken fricassee -- Chicken in leftover wine -- Chicken à la Montmorency -- Chicken Kiev, of a kind -- Cold deviled chicken -- Poached chicken mayonnaise -- Suprêmes de volaille aux champignons -- Duck confit à l'orange -- Grilled quails on canapés -- Steak tartare -- Mon Pierre's steak haché -- Steak Diane hallelujah! -- Beef bouilli -- Boeuf à la mode with gremolata -- Daube Provençal -- Garbure in three courses -- Menu for an Early Winter Dinner -- On Poverty and Oysters (Seafood) -- Crisp fish meunière -- Fish à la Basque -- Cod à la pil pil -- Mussel croquettes -- Salt cod croquettes -- Steamed clams -- Coquilles St-Jacques -- Lobster with beurre blanc -- Shrimp scampi -- French creamed oysters -- Menu for a Late-Winter Dinner -- Crying for Cream (Desserts) -- Walnut soufflé -- Ratafia cream -- Hazelnut-cardamom blancmange -- Chilled flower blossom pudding -- Honey flummery -- Chocolate mousse -- Frozen honey mousse for a crowd -- Charlotte Russe -- Tipsy cake -- Baked Alaska -- Orange blossom meringues -- Plum cake -- Peaches Melba -- Crêpes Suzette -- Shortbread -- Diplomate au kirsch à la manière de PAPAZI 2018 -- Crème anglaise -- Alcoholic Appendix (A Few Drinks) -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Index -- Copyright.