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Verk av Joseph Wechsberg

The Merchant Bankers (1966) 180 exemplar
Looking for a Bluebird (1900) 43 exemplar
Verdi (1974) 22 exemplar
Homecoming (1946) 11 exemplar
The Glory of the Violin (1973) 11 exemplar
The opera (1972) 10 exemplar
Avalanche (1958) 10 exemplar
The Story of Great Music: Prelude to Modern Music (1966) — Författare — 9 exemplar
Vienna, my Vienna (1968) 8 exemplar
The Best Things in Life (1951) 8 exemplar
In Leningrad (1977) 8 exemplar
Dream Towns of Europe (1976) 8 exemplar
The Voices by Wechsberg, Joseph (1969) — Författare — 5 exemplar
Sweet and Sour (1948) 4 exemplar
The continental touch (1950) 3 exemplar
Kulinarische Städtebilder (1984) 2 exemplar
The Murdering Among Us (1967) 2 exemplar
Story of Music (1968) 2 exemplar
Hochfinanz international. (1969) 1 exemplar

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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 535 exemplar
The Cuisine of Hungary (1971) — Preface, vissa utgåvor182 exemplar
Escape: Stories of Getting Away (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 26 exemplar
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, February 1972 (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Gourmet: the Magazine of Good Living, September 1969 (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, January 1976 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, July 1973 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, February 1973 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, February 1976 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, June 1970 (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, March 1972 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, August 1971 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: the Magazine of Good Living, June 1968 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, April 1969 (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, February 1969 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, January 1969 (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, November 1968 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, September 1974 (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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A shorter version of this book appeared earlier in the New Yorker. Wechsberg came to the U.S. just before WWII; though he spoke no English, he decided he'd like to write for the New Yorker. As I recall, the story goes that he was writing for them a year later--he also wrote regularly for Gourmet magazine...

This book, about his return to Czechoslovakia after teh war, is one of those great reporter-stories, but with a personal touch.
 
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giovannaz63 | Jan 18, 2021 |
I'm a sucker for books like these: food, another time and place (Czechoslovakia, Vienna...)...and Wechsberg has many. My favorites are his memoir/food books--but he also wrote many books about music, and one on banking.
 
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giovannaz63 | 2 andra recensioner | Jan 18, 2021 |
The author notes in the introduction to this book that he came from a family of merchant bankers; it shows, as this book is, in general, a very gentle and positive look at a number of banking powers. Time has not been very good to some of the firms represented in the book, most notably Barings and Lehman Brothers. The book came out in the mid-1960s, at a time when the old ways were starting to die out. The culture depicted in the book, I believe, has almost completely vanished, with the possible exception of the last, rather insubstantial, chapter on the Rothschilds. (For the Rothschilds, you're better off with Niall Ferguson's two-volume history.) A pleasant, but not a very deep read, mostly for folks who love the idea of the old-fashioned merchant bankers meeting in wood-panelled rooms. Not really recommended, as the material in the book is treated better elsewhere.… (mer)
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EricCostello | 1 annan recension | Dec 28, 2018 |
This was a lively and entertaining look at two worlds that no longer exist, from the perspective of food and gourmet meals.

The first part, which I found more enjoyable, shows Wechsberg's childhood in Moravia (a Czech-speaking part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) before and in the years after the first world war, and his life as a young man in Prague, Paris, and Vienna and as a traveling musician on ocean liners in the 1920s. This part was inherently more interesting for me, partly because I've read a lot of central European fiction more or less from this time period or slightly earlier, and also told more of a story. Also, there were lots of fascinating tidbits, like the 20 or so different cuts of boiled beef in Vienna, and the exploits of the women who frequented Maxim's in Paris in the 1890s.

The second part, which reads more like a collection of magazine articles (and probably was, since some of the chapters were published in a variety of US magazines) takes the reader on trips to French restaurants, truffle-gathering communities, and wine chateaus in the early 1950s. I found this moderately interesting in itself and as a portrait of a a way of life that, 50+ years later, seems almost as remote to us as the last days of the Austro-Hungarian empire must have seemed to Wechsberg when he wrote this book in 1953.

One of the most remarkable things about this book is Wechsberg's wonderful, lively, and humorous writing, because English is at least his fourth language (after Czech, German, and French) and he only learned it on coming to the US in 1938.
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3.9
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ISBN
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