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Published by Knopf in 1946 as an expanded version of a two-part New Yorker article. Joseph Wechsberg and his wife left Czechoslovakia for America in 1...
“This is a collection of casual articles about the seemingly forbidding subject of merchant banking and about some of the world’s most outstanding...
The Selected Essays of Joseph Wechsberg
"Wechsberg was a connoisseur in the old Continental sense of the word, a man who valued perfection for its own sake, seeing its quest as worthy and it...
Wechsberg’s memoir of pre-World War II mittel-Europa recounts with charm and irony life in the dying Habsburg Empire, family stories of wealth gaine...
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Takes an evocative look at the great spas of Europe and America, past and present, exploring their histories and telling the stories of the famous peo...
Some Irreverent Recollections
His Life, His Work, His Time
To this day, Schubert remains something of an enigma, despite the wealth of literature about him. Did he write the 'philistine sonatas' attributed to ...
Full of the food history of this region filled with basic and classic recipes. The recipes are easy to follow and easy to buy ingredients for....
The Peregrinations of an Epicure
There were, and still are, great restaurants all over Europe, but the greater part of Blue Trout and Black Truffles is devoted to the eatingplaces and...
The Life and Times and Music of the Strauss Family
Illuminates the private and public worlds of the Viennese musicians and composers, providing numerous photographs, portraits and paintings....
Recipes
A Novel
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in...
Music Book Index
Bonded Leather binding...
Fashions of the Hapsburg Era