Author: Turgeon, Charlotte
Title: Cooking For Christmas
Publisher: Oxford
Place: New York
Date: 1950
Edition: second ptg
Pages: 116
Binding: Hardback
Condition: VERY GOOD very good dj
Illustrator: the Strimbans
Book Id: MAIN000602I
Details: Preface, index
Summary: Contains menus and recipes for every form of holiday entertaining, from an old-fashioned Christmas dinner to a New Year's buffet for gourmets and even parties for the children. Separate chapters devoted to the first course, the second course, the main course, salads and dressings, desserts, holiday baking, candies and nuts, sandwiches, and the cup that cheers.
About the author: Good food and good cooking have been traditional in the family of Charlotte Snyder Turgeon. Her father was for many years the head of one of the largest and most famous food supply houses in the country. One of her aunts wrote a cookbook, and one was an original contributor to Fanny Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cook Book. But it was not until Mrs. Turgeon married that she turned to cooking as a hobby, stimulated first by the culinary accomplishments of her husband (Professor of French at Amherst College), and later by the enthusiasm of friends who had enjoyed her delectable dinners.
Mrs. Turgeon's natural skill in the art of cooking was enhanced by a year's study during 1936-7 at L'Academie de Cuisine de Paris, Le Cordon Bleu. Finding her apartment far from the Sorbonne, where she had intended to study literature, and near the famous cooking school, she turned wholeheartedly to her new interest and received the full diploma at the end of the year. During '949 Mrs. Turgeon was again in Paris, where she did special work in pastry making.
Mrs. Turgeon was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. Her A.B. degree from Smith College was awarded after three years at the college and a Junior year spent in Italy at the University of Florence. She has a remarkable library of French, American, and Italian cookbooks, some dating back to the seventeenth century.