The newly opened Lonesome Dove Western Bistro , in Manhattan's Flatiron District, also serves bison marrow "butter" on "camp bread, " kangaroo carpaccio nachos and lobster bacon served as an accompaniment to seared monkfish.

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Readers are introduced to dishes such as A Pie of Carrots and Other Roots, Luxury Bread and Brioche, and Fried Artichokes with Bacon and Cream, as well as pivotal epicurean characters like Taillevent (a 14th-century cook to the court of France), Olivier de La Marche (the Duke of Burgundy's master of ceremonies) and Maestro Martino di Como (cook to the papal court).

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This is particularly true of hotels and how they deal with toasting bread, frying eggs, arranging lettuce, crisping bacon and cooking French fries.

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