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Curnonsky: Prince of Gastronomes
Etcher, writer, and photographer, SAMUEL CHAMBERLAIN has lived for many years in France. Interested in French gastronomy ever since he was an ambulance driver with the French Army in World War I, he is the author of CLEMENTINE IN THE KITCHEN and BOUQUET DE FRANCE.
By Samuel Chamberlain
Curnonsky
BY SAMUEL CHAMBERLAIN
OBSERVANT diners in many Parisian restaurants today will see a small, discreet brass plaque fastened to the wall above the banquette.
In the exclusive Chez Taillevent, near the Étoile, it appears over a choice seat by the window. In one of the best bistros in Paris, La Chope Danton on the Left Bank, it occupies an inconspicuous spot under the spiral staircase.
In a hundred or more other restaurants it discreetly announces that this seat was once occupied by “Curnpnsky, Prince Liu des Gastronomes.”
To many people this will prove an introduction to the foremost French epicure of his day, a rotund, genial man with a gates-