French

The first cookbook of its kind on Chicago's ethnic cuisine. The authors have taken twenty of the city's nationalities and, in over 400 recipes, have presented the best of their native cuisines. The recipes are easy for the American cook to follow, yet still retain the character of the original cuisine.

L'Esprit de L'Escalier is a chapbook by Daniel Scott Parker, a poet at Columbia College. The title is a french term for thinking of the perfect retort too late.