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Simply Elegant: The Cuisine of the Windsor Court Hotel

Author: Kevin Graham
ISBN #: 0802112978
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld
Publisher Location: New York
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: very good
Edition: First edition
Pub Date: 1991
Signed by the chef (perhaps). Very shelf wear to the book and jacket. Appears to be inscribed by Graham on the half-title page, else clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. "Born and raised in Cheshire, England, Kevin Graham graduated from Hollings College in Manchester, England before apprenticing under German chef Klaus Rhulickhe. He then apprenticed at The Savoy in London under Great Chefs Jean Banchet and Daniel Bonnot; then to the Picadilly in Manchester, England and finally to the Negresco in Nice, France, before moving on to New Orleans. In New Orleans, Chef Graham became the executive chef for the private City Club, and then the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel. Omni transferred him to their Sagamore Resort in Saratoga Springs, New York before he accepted the offer to return to New Orleans as the executive chef of the Windsor Court Hotel in 1992."-from the Great Chefs website. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!