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Luke Barr


LUKE BARR is the author of Provence, 1970 (about his great-aunt M. F. K. Fisher) and Ritz & Escoffier. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, architect Yumi Moriwaki, and their two daughters.

Books by Luke Barr

The Secret History of French Cooking

From the New York Times bestselling author of Provence, 1970, a lively and riveting account of the revolutionary development of  French “nouvelle cuisine”, spurred by renegade chefs of the 1960s and 1970s.

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