Featuring seventy-five main course recipes, the lavishly illustrated cookbook is divided by ingredients. Each elegant or simple recipe is accompanied by an evocative headnote covering its significance in culinary history. For example: On one occasion at the fabled New York restaurant Luchows an old lion, seduced by the delicious aromas from the restaurant escaped from his cage at the Herbert Museum next door. Everyone screamed and leapt up onto the tables. The commotion of crashing china set the poor lion hot footing it back to the museum before snagging even one luscious sausage.
