"The Haphazard Gourmet" 1966 GEHMAN, Richard Addison Mizner Line drawings illustrated the text

Line drawings illustrated the text throughout

Verdon was hired by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961

beginning in 1906 when he found some copper wire discarded in the street and adorned his sister's dolls

6 1/2" x 3 /8"

"The Haphazard Gourmet" 1966 GEHMAN, Richard Addison Mizner Line drawings illustrated the textGEHMAN, Richard [250] pp. Charles Scribner's Sons 1966 8 3 4" x 6 1 4" Illustrations by Paul Coker, Jr. Being a carelessly compiled, alternately infuriating and ingratiating compendium of recipes, personal reminiscences, and occasional jokes recalled with affection, more or less, by Richard Gehman from good and bad times in his life inspired by Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine by Alexandre Dumas.