Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles

An intimate look into the kitchens and lives of two celebrated American food legends and friends

Renowned culinary master James Beard and his dear friend, chef Helen Evans Brown, shared both a love of food and a keen insight into the changing palate of American diners. In this twelve-year, bicoastal epistolary exchange of three hundred letters, Beard and Brown offer not only tidbits of indispensib...