A Food Lover's Companion (Evan Jones)

New York, Harper & Row, 1979. Hardcover. First Edition. 

Jacket copy:

"Some of the world's greatest food lovers celebrate the glories and pleasures of food and the many riles it plays in life itself. Among them: Anton Chekov, James Beard, Ben Jonson, Oscar Wilde, Alice B. Toklas, Art Buchwald, Craig Claiborne, Ernest Hemingway, Julia Child, Marcel Proust, James Michener, Enrico Caruso, Euell Gibbons, Ogden Nash, Mimi Sheraton, Woody Allen and more."