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A complete, free, and searchable digital edition of The Epicurean (Charles Ranhofer, New York, 1894) — the professional treatise of the chef of Delmonico's, and the most detailed record we have of American haute cuisine in the Gilded Age. It gathers more than 3,500 recipes together with menus, table service, and kitchen management, each reproduced in full from the public-domain original and individually linkable. It is a primary source for teaching and research in American history, food studies, the history of the restaurant, French culinary influence in the United States, and the social world of nineteenth-century New York. Free to read, cite, and assign; no login or paywall.

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