80 pp., ads in rear for Southern Pacific Railway lines. Illus. with drawings, & photographic portraits of the author and her husband. 6x3½", pictorial red wrappers, pages are pink cardstock. First Edition. Elizabeth Begué, neé Kettenring, who would become New Orleans’ first celebrity chef, came to New Orleans in 1853 from Bavaria. After marrying a butcher from the French Market by the name of Louis Dutrey, the couple opened Dutrey's, which served German food to a hungry crowd who worked at the French Market. When she became a widow, Elizabeth remarried Hypolite Begué, a former butcher many years her junior. Together, they remade Dutrey's into Begué's, and a legendary French restaurant was born. Madame became famed as the inventor of “the second breakfast” or “brunch.”
80 pp., ads in rear for Southern Pacific Railway lines. Illus. with drawings, & photographic portraits of the author and her husband. 6x3½", pictorial red wrappers, pages are pink cardstock. First Edition. Elizabeth Begué, neé Kettenring, who would become New Orleans’ first celebrity chef, came to New Orleans in 1853 from Bavaria. After marrying a butcher from the French Market by the name of Louis Dutrey, the couple opened Dutrey's, which served German food to a hungry crowd who worked at the French Market. When she became a widow, Elizabeth remarried Hypolite Begué, a former butcher many years her junior. Together, they remade Dutrey's into Begué's, and a legendary French restaurant was born. Madame became famed as the inventor of “the second breakfast” or “brunch.”
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