Collector’s Item: Rare Book, Slightly Distressed Dust Jacket, Hardback
Phineas Beck (Samuel Chamberlain), Clémentine in the Kitchen
(Hastings House, 1943)

Clémentine in the Kitchen is a charming portrait of a family of gastronomic adventurers, and a mouth-watering collection of more than 170 traditional French recipes. The Chamberlain family spent a dozen blissful years in pre-World War II France with their beloved cook, Clémentine, learning the gustatory pleasures of snail hunting in their backyard and bottling their own wine. When war rumblings sent them scurrying Stateside, Clémentine refused to be left behind and made a new home for herself in Marblehead where she introduced Yankees to the pleasures of French cuisine.