Something old, something new : classic recipes revised / Tamar Adler.

Includes index.

Many dishes that once excited our palates have disappeared from our tables-- perhaps even our memories. Adler has collected recipes from old cookbooks and menus, updated and simplified them, and now presents them for our modern lives. Ready for some Oysters Rockefeller? Perhaps Chicken à la Montmorency? She includes culinary advice, and encourages readers to create their own further modifications to the recipes.

Foreword / by Mini Sheraton -- Introduction -- When you are famished (hors d'Åu̕vres) -- La bonne soupe (soups) -- A growing love (salads) -- In vegetable veritas (vegetables) -- To rise like rice (starches and eggs) -- A good effect (meat) -- On poverty and oysters (seafood) -- Crying for cream (desserts) -- Alcoholic appendix (a few drinks)