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Sqwertz wrote:
> On Mon, 02 May 2011 08:59:37 -0400, Jean B. wrote:
>
>> Tunisia is a thin volume. My initial thought was that this and
>> other thin volumes were pulled from some larger volume, but that
>> seems not to be the case. I have not seen that that was the case
>> though.

>
> I can't find any reference to English version of a Culinara: Tunisia.
> Maybe in their original German?
>
> I picked up Culinaria: Italy a few days ago for $8 in the original
> H.F. Ullman binding format (binding 1/8" larger than pages), which I
> like the most. The big 5 (Italy, France, Germany, Italy, Russia) have
> been re-released yet again in yet another new binding by a yet another
> new imprint of Springer Verlag (The Simon and Schuster of Germany).
> or is it Tandem verlag? <shrug>. I used to know who owned who in the
> worldwide publishing industry at any given moment but those days are
> long gone.
>
> Now I just Culinaria Spain replaced. And USA would be nice but not a
> requirement.
>
> -sw


Hmmm. I think I can find Tunisia today, in which case, I'll give
you the details. Ah, in the meantime, I had an epiphany. It was
published by Konemann but is not part of the Culinaria series. Sorry.

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Jean B.